acknowledged
adjective
widely recognized; generally accepted.
self-acknowledged
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a word derived from
acknowledged.
Example Sentences
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Opposite this group is those who have internalized stigma: “Those whose addiction/recovery status is self-acknowledged but not shared with others due to a sense of personal shame derived from this status.”
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2017
This hypothesis is supported, of course, by Ferris's own self-acknowledged angst over not having the key instrument of teenage fun that Cameron has -- a car.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2011
Exposing Secrets Mr. Assange has come a long way from an unsettled childhood in Australia as a self-acknowledged social misfit who narrowly avoided prison after being convicted on 25 charges of computer hacking in 1995.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2010
Kyrylo Fesenko, the Ukrainian big man filling in for Okur, had just two points in 13 minutes while playing self-acknowledged inadequate defense.
From Newsweek ● May 4, 2010
It betrayed my scarcely self-acknowledged secret to another.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
