ADMITTING Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

admitting

verb

present participle of admit

as in confessing

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 receiving

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

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as in owning (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 admitting The first of the 12 steps is admitting that your relationship with your vice has become unmanageable. — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 There’s a sense that doubt would be a form of disloyalty to what came before you, or that admitting a weakness undermines the confidence of the people around you. — Flavio Maluf, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The Biden administration built it back and set a goal of admitting 125,000 refugees during the final year of his term. — Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026 The Election Commission may yet blunt the controversy by admitting voters whose appeals are pending or by making procedural concessions that reduce the immediate grievances. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 Both lines can be construed metatextually, like Dennis is admitting the Gang has come to the end of the road. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026 Acknowledging a customer’s negative experience doesn’t necessarily mean admitting wrongdoing. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 The president, who generally resists admitting fault, has recently made several reversals responding to ethical concerns. — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026 The hospital has been placed under quarantine, Mayor Maxim Modin said Friday, no longer admitting or discharging patients, and its laboratory halted carrying out routine tests. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

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On July 23, 1973, tragedy rippled through the Mexican American community when 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez was shot and killed by a Dallas police officer who tried to coerce him into confessing to a burglary by playing Russian roulette.

— Alexis Guerrero, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Throw in some divine intervention with the first Chicago pope confessing his allegiance to the South Siders, and the Cinderella story has captured the nation’s imagination.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of confessing

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Meanwhile, the appeals court found that public schools were not receiving all the money the state’s own funding plan called for.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
The receiving device checks every instruction against what the sender is actually permitted to do, building on network isolation and device identity rather than replacing them.

— Julian Durand, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of receiving

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The incumbent senator accused his critics of lying about the controversy before acknowledging that his office sent patients with unpaid bills to collections.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Some potential privacy breaches may fall under product safety laws that attorneys general can prosecute under UDAP statutes , Schroeder said, acknowledging the possibility of broader AI legislation coming out of the next Congress.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of acknowledging

Verb

The hosts opened a four-goal lead by the 55th minute and held on after conceding in the 77th, 86th and 89th.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Vena said the current task is proving service is strong enough to hold customers trying rail, simultaneously conceding that not all will stay.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of conceding

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Samsung settled, agreeing to update its terms to more clearly explain its use of ACR.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Trump has been shifting away from Kyiv in recent weeks, criticizing Zelenskyy, waiving sanctions on Russia and agreeing to a diesel deal with the Kremlin.

— David Hickey, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026