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  • I force myself to acknowledge Peeta.   (source)
  • Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right.   (source)
    acknowledged = admitted
  • No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • This, his journal acknowledges, turned out to be a "tremendous mistake."   (source)
    acknowledges = admits
  • It was a small thing, the standing; but no one had ever stood automatically to acknowledge Jonas's presence before.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of (showing respect)
  • Doug raised his arms, pointing his index fingers to the flaking gilt ceiling in the I'm-number-one sign, and acknowledged the clapping with a victory lap around the room.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition of
  • Big Ma looked around at Papa and Uncle Hammer, but neither of them acknowledged her glance; their eyes were pinned on Mr. Jamison.   (source)
  • I hated to acknowledge such a possibility, but really there was no other choice.   (source)
    acknowledge = admit
  • We'll forget for a moment that when Finch finally got here, you didn't acknowledge it. He's still waiting for that, by the way, but he's a patient dog.   (source)
    acknowledge = thank or appreciate
  • She didn't even acknowledge my cookies, though I know she ate them because all that was left on the plate were crumbs.   (source)
    acknowledge = express thanks for
  • As the Circle sat down, the Keeper drew in a deep slow breath, looking around to acknowledge each person.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • No one acknowledged her warning; no one seemed to have heard it.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition of
  • At school we were the best of friends; however, at home, we both knew I was not to be acknowledged.   (source)
    acknowledged = recognized
  • My friends don't acknowledge my existence, but everyone else whispers and stares.   (source)
    acknowledge = express knowing of
  • He did not acknowledge Aunt Queen, nor did he thank her for the meal.   (source)
    acknowledge = recognize publically
  • Hatton never acknowledged my reaction.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition
  • Well, Sally, I'm in fault, and I acknowledge it;   (source)
    acknowledge = admit (or recognize publicly)
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.   (source)
    acknowledged = recognized (agreed upon)
  • Actually, I've spoken to her a number of times," his mother acknowledged.†   (source)
  • He raised his hand, and before Chang could even acknowledge him, he spoke loudly.†   (source)
  • "Ah, yes," acknowledged the Count.†   (source)
  • If it came up in conversation, he acknowledged it and moved on.†   (source)
  • Before you know it, that cute little four-year-old is a sullen teenager who won't even acknowledge your presence in the room.†   (source)
  • He raised his head and acknowledged the many faces he had not seen for over a year.†   (source)
  • So, I want you to know that I respect you, and acknowledge your skills.†   (source)
  • To acknowledge the fact brings a smile to his lips.†   (source)
  • [We] are devoutly to acknowledge that kind Providence … hath restored our city to its useful state of health and prosperity.†   (source)
  • The owners acknowledged his efforts, then paid him half of what his father earned.†   (source)
  • The sad thing was that we weren't allowed to roll down the windows to acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • Walter had decided to acknowledge being a "friend" of Karen.†   (source)
  • He acknowledged it with a jovial wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • Let us simply acknowledge that it was not a successful one.†   (source)
  • I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.†   (source)
  • They told me I didn't speak or acknowledge anyone for a week.†   (source)
  • It's all right to acknowledge your mother.†   (source)
  • Perhaps acknowledging his wisdom.†   (source)
  • I thought perhaps he had been indoors so long that it was all bound to feel a little weird for him, and I decided I was simply not going to acknowledge it.†   (source)
  • When the boys approached, he didn't even acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • None of this was publicly acknowledged.†   (source)
  • Williams refused to acknowledge that his party might be a manifestation of poor taste.†   (source)
  • I have to acknowledge quite openly that it may be a fatal danger.†   (source)
  • The acknowledged expert was Edward H. Simpson, emeritus professor of zoology at Columbia University, in New York.†   (source)
  • He rarely spoke and some days barely acknowledged us.†   (source)
  • Neither would acknowledge the other.†   (source)
  • It was a miracle Celaena bothered to acknowledge his existence—or perhaps she'd spent so long in Adarlan that she'd stopped caring.†   (source)
  • We nodded to acknowledge other soldiers as we walked around town looking for Jumah.†   (source)
  • We acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness.†   (source)
  • He acknowledges their silent applause.†   (source)
  • Tino opened the door and said, "Yo, Henry D." Then he turned back inside without acknowledging me.†   (source)
  • The boy acknowledges neither question nor questioner as he passes.†   (source)
  • It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.†   (source)
  • "You know, Private, it's customary to acknowledge an order from your commanding officer."†   (source)
  • Any regular little kid would have then turned and waved back, or done something to acknowledge the people in the waiting car.†   (source)
  • There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.†   (source)
  • But although Okonkwo was a great man whose prowess was universally acknowledged, he was not a hunter.†   (source)
  • I can't just lounge in the Hab awaiting a reply; I have to stay in the rover until they acknowledge the message.†   (source)
  • The Red servants don't acknowledge me, their heads down as they buzz between shops.†   (source)
  • It's amazing the help you can receive from supportive family and friends if you acknowledge your feelings.†   (source)
  • Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what's what and it's all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she's a vegetarian.†   (source)
  • They both knew it, but it wasn't something they acknowledged very much.†   (source)
  • I feel like she deep down hates me, though, and knows what I represent even though we have never told her, I think she knows I represent a side of her son that she doesn't want to acknowledge exists.†   (source)
  • Emma made frequent and passionate arguments as to why I should stay, none of which acknowledged the life I would be abandoning (however meager it seemed), or how the sudden inexplicable disappearance of their only child might affect my parents, or the stifling suffocation that Emma herself had admitted feeling inside the loop.†   (source)
  • Not till John had courteously acknowledged the minister's introductions did he turn to Kit.†   (source)
  • "This place must seem silly to you," he acknowledges, watching her gaze up at the walls.†   (source)
  • If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter.†   (source)
  • I know he's acknowledged that boy at Storm's End, the one he fathered the night Lord Stannis wed.†   (source)
  • She didn't acknowledge Park in history class, but she never did.†   (source)
  • Adri lifted her chin and finally acknowledged Cinder's presence by swiping her gaze down Cinder's filthy boots and cargo pants.†   (source)
  • I didn't want him feeling embarrassed or defensive for finally acknowledging his son.†   (source)
  • Dr. Joseph acknowledged their greeting: "Hummmm."†   (source)
  • An hour of monologue, a poem, a comment, and then without either acknowledging the fact that Montag was a fireman, Faber, with a certain trembling, wrote his address on a slip of paper.†   (source)
  • Lacks was not acknowledged as the donor of the cells.†   (source)
  • What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.†   (source)
  • Anderson did not so much as turn around to acknowledge Ender's challenge.†   (source)
  • I wonder if Shayna/Shayla will actually acknowledge me in class today.†   (source)
  • She says that's why the government doesn't bother doing anything about them, doesn't even acknowledge their existence.†   (source)
  • He waited, listening to white noise for several seconds in case there had been a mistake, then acknowledged and closed down.†   (source)
  • She also acknowledges having made brutal trade-offs.†   (source)
  • It's the acknowledging of the passage of time that does it.†   (source)
  • Uh-huh?' she acknowledged.†   (source)
  • He never acknowledged my presence.†   (source)
  • He peered at us with an acknowledging frown and nod, then quickly walked away.†   (source)
  • "You did a good job," Eragon acknowledged grudgingly.†   (source)
  • Yet Mommy refused to acknowledge her whiteness.†   (source)
  • Yet he is always ready to acknowledge the potential salvation that resides in a sinner's heart.†   (source)
  • Several of the gentlemen looked up at Kate as she entered, but none of them acknowledged her, except to give a low grumble of distaste.†   (source)
  • She often claimed she did not need to be acknowledged to feel satisfied, but that was not exactly true.†   (source)
  • I don't acknowledge it.†   (source)
  • One day I stood in front of the one I have tagged as Dei, stayed there until he had to acknowledge my presence, and asked, "Why are there no children?"†   (source)
  • I was too aggravated to acknowledge him. acknowledge him.†   (source)
  • They acknowledge no responsibility whatsoever.†   (source)
  • Michael acknowledged that was true.†   (source)
  • Sharmak just sat there, and then Gulab nodded to the Taliban boss, who I noticed made an infinitesimal incline of his head, like a pitcher acknowledging a catcher's signal.†   (source)
  • I acknowledged him with a tiny smile, found my money, and dropped it into Wally's wrinkled hand.†   (source)
  • He looked around, too, and watched as Lincoln "looked upon the people he loved and acknowledged [them] …. with a solemn bow."†   (source)
  • I knew she only chased boys because her father, who hosted a cartoon and kids' show in Boca called Harvey's Heroes, had refused to acknowledge her as his daughter, even after a blood test proved otherwise.†   (source)
  • Although he was gracious in acknowledging defeat, Depew doubted that Chicago really understood the challenge that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • Now the first thing we have to acknowledge about this masterpiece is that it is absolutely real.†   (source)
  • But as far as her parents were concerned, he was the only one who mattered, or the only one they acknowledged or remembered.†   (source)
  • Amy's mother, a tall, thin woman, acknowledged her introduction to Adam without really looking at him—she was on the telephone making arrangements for a committee meeting of some sort—and then she dashed out of the house on the way to another committee meeting.†   (source)
  • Every dawn she saw the dawn, but never acknowledged or remarked its color.†   (source)
  • I was left alone, standing at attention before Dad, who finally acknowledged my presence.†   (source)
  • Cot himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp.†   (source)
  • She would have been forced to acknowledge one of those lines leading to a place beyond her control.†   (source)
  • But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost.†   (source)
  • And I want to acknowledge my brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, and countless uncles, aunts and cousins (a few of them had problems when my book was first published but, in time, became my biggest fans).†   (source)
  • Brittain glances over at Jody, but she does not acknowledge him.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gompers stroked his bushy moustache, held his arm up to acknowledge the applause.†   (source)
  • No. He was born shortly after I started the department and I guess I wanted to acknowledge my good fortune.†   (source)
  • He wondered how many knew they were continuing a pre-Christian mystical tradition of acknowledging the mystical power above, which, for one brief moment, had transformed them into a god capable of miraculous feats.†   (source)
  • I thought the inspector would say something, or express surprise, but he didn't even acknowledge Amos.†   (source)
  • In that Christian institution, breasts were not acknowledged.†   (source)
  • And these two? she asked, finally acknowledging their presence.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," Jace acknowledged, "but that doesn't mean I'm not right.†   (source)
  • M. Dupont held up his hand, though whether to acknowledge the applause or to stem it was not clear.†   (source)
  • He acknowledged that they knew what they were doing in their domains.†   (source)
  • Though we may deplore and condemn such actions from a humane point of view, we still have to acknowledge their unconditional, relentless and irrevocable nature.†   (source)
  • Besides, acknowledging the note would mean admitting that he had kept secrets from her; secrets he still justified in his own mind.†   (source)
  • We didn't even acknowledge that anything had changed.†   (source)
  • STEWART: But you do acknowledge that you sent him from your room?†   (source)
  • He acknowledges my presence and I nod approvingly but choose not to interrupt him.†   (source)
  • The man sometimes has a boa constrictor wrapped around his neck, though the snake is never acknowledged, by me or him.†   (source)
  • But Florentino Ariza was so eager that he sailed much earlier on the mail sloop, whose crew acknowledged him as one of their own.†   (source)
  • Presently, Leto took a leisurely diagonal course across to the lift, acknowledging salutes with a casual hand wave.†   (source)
  • That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me.†   (source)
  • At the leading edge there are no subjects, no objects, only the track of Quality ahead, and if you have no formal way of evaluating, no way of acknowledging this Quality, then the entire train has no way of knowing where to go.†   (source)
  • And then she showed her where to sign the waiver acknowledging the risks of uterine suction.†   (source)
  • He'd offered Kabuo a cigar from his shirt pocket, lit his own, then brought two candy bars out of the box and dropped them on the bunk beside Kabuo without acknowledging that he had done so.†   (source)
  • And in this he acknowledged his debt to the great philosophers before him— including Descartes.†   (source)
  • Nadia was herself coming to acknowledge that this was no longer a city where the risks facing a young woman living independently could be thought of as manageable, and equally importantly she worried for Saeed each time he drove over to see her and back again.†   (source)
  • The Hawkins Hollow Library gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the Franklin and Maybelle Hawkins Family Franklin and Maybelle.†   (source)
  • I could see he was moved by my acknowledging them.†   (source)
  • Also—he never looked up to acknowledge the grunts of acceptance—also, we were bound to get some new equipment for the home economics building and the workshop.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until the end of the morning, after waiting in one course line after another, that Dan acknowledged the sad truth: the three of them hadn't chosen a single class together.†   (source)
  • He acknowledged the relationship and his paternity, but he stated that he had no idea where his daughter might be, and he had not had any contact with her in ten years.†   (source)
  • I was standing at the head of the table shakingthe principal's hand, when Papa rose, his face ceremoniously grave, and acknowledged the other parents with his most respectful gesture.†   (source)
  • You wish to know if I feel you are ready to duel to the death a man ruthless enough to kill your father, rich enough to buy protection, older and more experienced, an acknowledged master.†   (source)
  • If one is to be objective one must acknowledge that Eisenstein is a genius.†   (source)
  • What I didn't want to acknowledge was I'd specifically chosen a night I knew I wouldn't see Patch to test it out.†   (source)
  • And only Willie-Jay had ever recognized his worth, his potentialities, had acknowledged that he was not just an under-sized, over muscled half-breed, had seen him, for all the moralizing, as he saw himself-"exceptional," "rare," "artistic."†   (source)
  • She wouldn't even acknowledge him again, if he came up to her.†   (source)
  • My first husband never acknowledged holidays, but Moody remembered even the smallest occasion, often by creating his own card.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo and Dick Lincoln acknowledged each other with brief, constrained nods.†   (source)
  • She hung her head in shame and grief, for her mother refused to acknowledge her presence.†   (source)
  • He was an acknowledged custodian of Xhosa history, and it was partially for that reason that he was valued as an adviser.†   (source)
  • Milo acknowledged the introduction and, as Tock growled softly, the minister explained.†   (source)
  • Half of them probably are related to me, but they've never bothered acknowledging my existence before this.†   (source)
  • But her maternal grandmother, Munawar, made a point of acknowledging and aiding the poor whenever she could.†   (source)
  • He had no sister, of course, or any living family that he acknowledged.†   (source)
  • She acknowledged the west and north in turn.†   (source)
  • You have to acknowledge that.†   (source)
  • He had been more stirred than he was willing to acknowledge by the girl's beauty, and by a nameless power that went out from the seemingly helpless creature and laid hold of those with whom she came in contact.†   (source)
  • Not everyone believes or acknowledges that.†   (source)
  • Despite a deep reservoir of appreciation for Head Start (one of this book's authors was a charter student), we must acknowledge that it has repeatedly been proven ineffectual in the long term.†   (source)
  • [and was a] stupid-looking sort of a man, 14 ho acknowledged himself that he could neither read nor write.†   (source)
  • You had to report to the office he shared with Toricella and sign a big log book to acknowledge you had been there.†   (source)
  • " "Acknowledged," Ramius said.†   (source)
  • Every time I saw Derek at school, laughing with Justin or Brent, while refusing to even acknowledge me, I got mad.†   (source)
  • Newt asked Deets, the acknowledged expert on times and distances.†   (source)
  • When Sunitha had to tell his family that he had been killed, she acknowledged that she had to be more cautious.†   (source)
  • To acknowledge pain was to acknowledge danger.†   (source)
  • acknowledged with a thumbs-up, having already dialed in my dope.†   (source)
  • From time to time, both before and after that, he would come to our house and complain to my mother and me about his drinking problem …. well, when he acknowledged it was a problem.†   (source)
  • Acknowledging this subtle gesture, he said, "This will all go in the report as though it took place at our initial meeting at the Pentagon."†   (source)
  • There was no time to acknowledge any of that, though.†   (source)
  • We would often pass secret adoring looks to each other and when she acknowledged my gaze my heart would race at a thousand miles an hour.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Greg," Apo said, acknowledging the obvious thickly through his mouthful of Copenhagen, "they're everywhere.†   (source)
  • As Thomas rushed past him, he yelled a greeting and saw Chick's hand and eyes move, acknowledging him.†   (source)
  • Gallimard rises, and turns U.S. towards the figure of Song, who dances without acknowledging him.†   (source)
  • We only have to wait a few minutes, and no one notices or acknowledges me at all.†   (source)
  • Then you Experience the emotions and acknowledge them and then you JUST LET IT GO.†   (source)
  • All that was demanded of them was that they should keep the Great Bridge in repair, and all other bridges and roads, speed the king's messengers, and acknowledge his lordship.†   (source)
  • He didn't acknowledge her as she entered, but the pattern of his breathing changed, and she knew he was aware of her presence.†   (source)
  • Dear Madam This will acknowledge your letter of the 31st ultimo.†   (source)
  • "Party favor," he acknowledged.†   (source)
  • The boy made a soft, abrupt sound when the vampire said his name which the vampire acknowledged with the quick statement, "Yes, that is my name," and went on.†   (source)
  • Let him stay that way, the colonel decided vindictively, just to show him who was boss and to safeguard himself against any loss of dignity that might devolve from his acknowledging the omission.†   (source)
  • My mother had yet to acknowledge that I was in the room.†   (source)
  • The exercise forced students to act on prejudicesoften drawn from obvious characteristics-that they'd rather not acknowledge having.†   (source)
  • But Otis either didn't hear his question or didn't acknowledge it, because he washed off the knife in the sink and turned back to Vlad, almost anxious.†   (source)
  • "That's true," I acknowledged.†   (source)
  • "The men, yes," my mother acknowledged, "but my Tony is only a boy, a baby yet."†   (source)
  • But the women would not yield; each looked straight ahead, waiting for the other woman to acknowledge her inferiority and step aside.†   (source)
  • I don't even want to acknowledge the bank's existence.†   (source)
  • But so relentless was her pain that Sister couldn't acknowledge Matron's kindness.†   (source)
  • He did not acknowledge her presence.†   (source)
  • Soren stepped up to him, but Woref didn't acknowledge him.†   (source)
  • He stepped in between Enrique and Gloria and addressed her without even acknowledging the mestizo's presence.†   (source)
  • When people say, "Looks like you have your hands full," I'll smile and acknowledge that it's true, but I make the best of it because I believe that my husband will call me tomorrow.†   (source)
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