How to Use unacknowledged in a Sentence

unacknowledged

adjective
  • No force keeps her from having both, other than her own unacknowledged solipsism.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But one of the show’s leading creative forces went unacknowledged — for good reason.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 June 2026
  • Such a pattern might suggest an unacknowledged substance in the soil.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Their heroic deeds went unacknowledged for over a century, but time did not erase their valor.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 July 2024
  • The one line that is, however, is just too memorable to go unacknowledged.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The loss often goes unacknowledged, the wound untended to.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What remained mostly unacknowledged, though, is that even the best midterm result cannot reverse the aging process.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
  • The problem with spring football, which went unacknowledged in the column, was that the best players would opt out to prepare for the draft.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • These are essential — but often unacknowledged — skills for students to hone.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • Economists are the unacknowledged poets of the world.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The stories of men and boys still remain mostly hidden, unacknowledged and undiscussed.
    — Emma Brown, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The two men won the Nobel Prize, while Franklin’s role went largely unacknowledged.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • The Times op-ed page deserves its share of blame here for pushing an idea that has such obvious unacknowledged drawbacks.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Yes, these are all terms for work can be overlooked, unacknowledged, and uncompensated.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Rwanda’s unacknowledged exploits in Congo have long since ceased to be about self-defense or even revenge.
    — Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But most think the events of the past year, made visible by both the pandemic and the racial reckoning, cannot go unacknowledged in the office.
    — Jessica Wolfrom, Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • But when tragedy struck, the two — both unacknowledged addicts — found themselves on a collision course with catastrophe.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Their lives were upended, their futures clouded and their pain unacknowledged as a districtwide problem was kept under wraps.
    — David Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
  • When tragedy struck, the two — both unacknowledged addicts — found themselves on a collision course with catastrophe.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • After all, unacknowledged feelings and frustrations rarely stay under the rug.
    — Anna Bruk, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
  • What emerges is a tangle of conflicts and contradictions that are often unacknowledged or explained away.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2021
  • However, this can cause people to feel unacknowledged for the resulting challenges ahead.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • There is an unacknowledged but suffocating assumption that the new parents simply can’t do it.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But the fifth anniversary of that formative moment went unacknowledged by the White House last week.
    — Mike Memoli, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • There is a certain unacknowledged Welshness to The Holy Bible.
    — Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • Jones’ latest achievement even went unacknowledged by the school’s public address announcer.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Some feel unacknowledged, struggling to manage the aftermath of their partners’ deaths amid an unending health crisis.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Being gay and misunderstood, with the unacknowledged pain of it kept inside, was quite literally eating me alive.
    — Matt Gerlach, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • But the pic is open-ended enough to acknowledge that the remedies for unacknowledged prejudice are neither easy nor clearly identified.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2019
  • 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, 31 May 2018

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