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Acknowledgments that New York was once home to the Lenape people have become a familiar refrain at arts venues.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Acknowledgments of country have become more common in the United States and Canada as they reckon with their own histories of mistreating First Nations people.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021

McDermid says in her Acknowledgments that she herself was a young “journalist living and working in Glasgow in 1979.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021

Acknowledgments: It is a pleasure to thank John Rennie and Keith Johnson for helpful comments and suggestions and Aileen Penner for the illustration.

From Scientific American • Jun. 11, 2013

Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript for permission to reprint the large body of material previously published in the columns of that paper.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)