Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not accepted or recognized.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not acknowledged; not recognized: as, an unacknowledged agent or consul.
- Not owned; not confessed; not avowed: as, an unacknowledged crime or fault.
- Not noticed; not reported as received: as, his check has remained unacknowledged.
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- adjective Not
acknowledged
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not openly acknowledged
- adjective not recognized or admitted
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not coincidentally, this is the group most likely to become the target of the contempt and thus the very public venom of extremists on the far-right and the far-left, working in unacknowledged but full concert, keen to neutralize people they see as spineless, bloodless sell-outs.
Bradley Burston: Leftists Who Love Israel -- A Self-Help Guide Bradley Burston 2010
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Not coincidentally, this is the group most likely to become the target of the contempt and thus the very public venom of extremists on the far-right and the far-left, working in unacknowledged but full concert, keen to neutralize people they see as spineless, bloodless sell-outs.
Bradley Burston: Leftists Who Love Israel -- A Self-Help Guide Bradley Burston 2010
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How many more servicemen were captured by the enemy and remain unacknowledged?
19 New POW Cases 2008
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That challenge to US nuclear policies took the form of the “nuclear freeze,” a movement that contributed in unacknowledged ways to the eventually successful goal of halting the insane US-Soviet nuclear arms race.
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Life and property were both swallowed up, leaving behind a deep-seated sense of enormous wrong, as yet unatoned and even unacknowledged, which is one of the chief factors in the problem now presented to the statesmen of both countries ....
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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Dewey concludes the final chapter, and the book, by attributing art's greatest good to its exercise of "imaginative vision," leaning heavily on Shelley in evoking the "unacknowledged" influence of art.
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Dewey concludes the final chapter, and the book, by attributing art's greatest good to its exercise of "imaginative vision," leaning heavily on Shelley in evoking the "unacknowledged" influence of art.
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Dewey concludes the final chapter, and the book, by attributing art's greatest good to its exercise of "imaginative vision," leaning heavily on Shelley in evoking the "unacknowledged" influence of art.
June 2010 2010
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Dewey concludes the final chapter, and the book, by attributing art's greatest good to its exercise of "imaginative vision," leaning heavily on Shelley in evoking the "unacknowledged" influence of art.
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Currently complicating matters are the presence of bellicose politicians in Israel and their allies in the United States who believe it's fine to have "unacknowledged" nuclear weapons in Israel but it would somehow be a disaster in Iran.
In Solidarity with the People of Iran sfmike 2009
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