acknowledgment
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Plagiarism can be defined as the appropriation of someone else’s words or ideas without acknowledgment or compensation.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
As scholar Sheila Jasanoff asserts, sound democratic governance requires epistemic humility—an explicit acknowledgment of the limits of scientific certainty in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The rare opinion piece serves as Ellison’s acknowledgment that his family’s close association with President Trump has sullied his standing in Hollywood and beyond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Whether that acknowledgment will translate into meaningful action remains to be seen.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
At first Prendergast thought the smiling was an acknowledgment that soon he would be in charge, but now he saw it as something else.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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“He is in every meaningful sense the paper’s human co-author,” Claude wrote in the acknowledgments section.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Kennedy halted the FDA-backed proposal that would have restricted sunlamp products to users 18 and older and required warning acknowledgments about cancer risks.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
Death crosses are more acknowledgments that the trend has extended long enough and/or fallen far enough to be taken seriously, and aren’t necessarily meant to be good market-timing signals.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 14, 2026
Here the show also makes one of its few acknowledgments of looting’s effects on Cambodian art history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
I told Great-great-aunt Florentine I’d give her credit in the acknowledgments.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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