How to Use acknowledgment in a Sentence

acknowledgment

noun
  • Special acknowledgments will be made at the end of the meeting.
  • He paid the fine without acknowledgment of his guilt.
  • He's the first person mentioned in the book's acknowledgments.
  • We sent an acknowledgment that we received their letter.
  • He never received an acknowledgment of his payment.
  • They presented him with an award in acknowledgment of his charitable work.
  • He has finally received the acknowledgment he deserves for his charitable work.
  • They made several public acknowledgments of their company's mistake.
  • Lent is an acknowledgment of the 40 days the Bible says Christ spent in the wilderness.
    Maria Carter, Country Living, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This was such a nice acknowledgment of all these years on the road.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2022
  • School prayer and the Bible are in, drag shows and the acknowledgment of trans people are out.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • One is the acknowledgment that Covid-19 is here to stay.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • And yet to what gain, since an acknowledgment now would be forced?
    Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Is there any acknowledgment of the sexism and misogyny of that time in the film? .
    Shirley Halperin, Variety, 19 May 2022
  • Our weekly acknowledgment of the creatures that help us make it through the storm.
    Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 27 Dec. 2020
  • More of that and an acknowledgment/thanks for reporters’ work was also in the notes.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Stay open to little gifts of acknowledgment along the way!
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But there needs to be some acknowledgment that some trade-off has to occur.
    Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Nepo-baby acknowledgments have come a long way over the past few years.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • But beneath the bravado was an acknowledgment of the work ahead.
    Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Along with the pride is an acknowledgment by many here that the Biden summer home could be good for business.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Their acknowledgment of the importance of the Stretch and Bobbito show is dope!
    Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2021
  • An acknowledgment that a hat is as much a part of her physical body as an arm or a leg.
    Kinsey Jasnoch, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The choice of a gel instead of soil was made in acknowledgment of the growing scarcity of soil resources on earth as well as in space.
    Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022
  • But the pain didn’t stop at the acknowledgment of mistakes made during the reporting of Caliphate.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Our weekly acknowledgment of the animals that help us make it through the storm.
    Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 30 May 2021
  • The acknowledgment is a feather in the cap for the local tourism industry.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The Man — on its tour to help organize such acknowledgments at each show.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This time around, pundits rightly predicted that their breakout co-stars Britt Lower and Tramell Tillman would finally get some acknowledgment.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2025
  • Doja, rather than sparring further, offered a diplomatic acknowledgment of their preferences.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 12 Aug. 2025

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