ADMITTED Synonyms: 101 Similar and Opposite Words

admitted

verb

past tense of admit

as in confessed

to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly the host of the talk show eventually admitted that she hadn't actually read the book you can't bring yourself to admit your mistakes

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as in received

to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to she was admitted to Harvard

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as in owned (up)

to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid I admit to some suspicions about the new neighbors

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Recent Examples of admitted After allocating about 8% of GDP to NEOM, once contract cancellations are included, the government has admitted a costly defeat. — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The Portland decision — based in part on data the Department of Justice later admitted was false — prompted an extraordinary filing by Judge Jay Bybee, who all but pleaded with the court to rehear the case and interpret the law differently. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 The majority ruled that the Fifth Amendment did not require bond hearings for three men who entered the United States unlawfully but were never legally admitted. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2026 The woman was reportedly visiting Lawson, who had been admitted at the hospital. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026 While Atlanta's defense has been in sync the last two games, Golden State admitted they have been uncharacteristically undisciplined. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 In its ruling, the court said the parent group had failed to show Asian American students were harmed, because they were still being admitted at higher rates than the applicant pool. — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026 The prisoner in question, Doug Korpi, had also admitted that his agony was an act to journalist Ben Blum, who included the revelation in a broader takedown of the experiment published in 2018. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026 Investigators found that the facility had no operating license, lacked legal documentation concerning the placement of children and maintained no registry of those admitted, according to the affidavit. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026

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Sophie confessed to being a bit conflicted about tobacco, a plant that has killed untold humans, but is also showing promise in vaccine production and other pharmaceutical research.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
Kao confessed to federal agents that his business model consisted of bribing public officials in exchange for government contracts, and that the research Navatek was providing to the government was often worthless.

— Molly Redden, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2026

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The trend marks a stark turn from earlier this decade, when sellers often received well above their asking price as home shoppers empowered by rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy that sent home prices soaring.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Niven, who received his PhD from Ohio State University, pointed to another viral moment from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as an instance of the latter.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of received

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Advertisement In our survey, about two-thirds of Americans said a candidate's position on AI could influence their vote in the upcoming Midterm elections, although most acknowledged that other issues matter more.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
However, other administration officials have acknowledged the lists may not be entirely accurate.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of acknowledged

Verb

For decades, Democrats and Republicans alike have agreed that the terrorists in Tehran, who have been killing Americans for 47 years, cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Moscow and Beijing last week have agreed to expand freight traffic along Arctic shipping corridors, increase services between their ports and deepen cooperation on building polar vessels.

— Lee Ying Shan,Matthew Tan, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

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