unacknowledged

adjective un·ac·knowl·edged \ ˌən-ik-ˈnä-lijd , -ak- \

|Updated on: 10 Jun 2018

Definition of unacknowledged

: not generally recognized, accepted, or admitted : not acknowledged

His involvement in the cover-up has remained unacknowledged.

Her efforts should not go unacknowledged.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Recent Examples of unacknowledged from the Web

The government is building hundreds or thousands of unacknowledged re-education camps to which Uighurs can be sent for any reason or for none.

— The Economist, "China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other," 31 May 2018
The irony of Thrush saying so, then participating in a documentary that explicitly makes a story of the press, goes unacknowledged.

— julia felsenthal, Vogue, "The New York Times," 25 May 2018
Thank you, to whoever wrote the note, for having the foresight to purchase the pad of citations, ensuring that no parking misdeed would go unacknowledged.

— vanessa hua, San Francisco Chronicle, "The power of stories, wrenching or festive," 3 May 2018
Over the years, Evergreen, East End, and many other black cemeteries across Virginia have fallen into disrepair, uncared for and unacknowledged.

— george copeland jr. and thomas jett, The Christian Science Monitor, "Ignored and overgrown, Virginia's historic black cemeteries get cleaned up," 8 May 2018
The direct military conflict between Israel and Iran has already begun, with a series of increasingly bold (and usually unacknowledged) Israeli strikes on Iranian bases in Syria in recent weeks.

— yaroslav trofimov, WSJ, "Can Israel’s Clash With Iran Be Contained in Syria?," 3 May 2018
In its earliest days, before several veteran organizers who are women of color stepped in, the event was called the Million-Woman March, an unacknowledged ripoff of both a 1997 march by black women and a 1995 march by black men.

— ann friedman, The Cut, "Glennon Doyle Is Coming to Get the White Women," 26 Apr. 2018
The current president, who seems to cherish the very myth of manhood that Harold embodies, is the unacknowledged echo in the room through the whole performance.

— laura collins-hughes, New York Times, "Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’," 16 Apr. 2018
The Starbucks incident set off outrage in large part because it was captured on video by a customer, but many such slights are undocumented and unacknowledged.

— Washington Post, "Starbucks incident highlights perils of shopping while black," 18 Apr. 2018

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