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It’s very difficult to do a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of different climate projects, and experts freely admit they’re not 100 percent sure they’ve made the best recommendations.

From Vox

It’s not encouraging that they’re essentially admitting they have no profitable places to invest the other 80% of their earnings.

From Fortune

In 2015, the automaker admitted that about 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with devices that gave false readings during emissions tests.

From Fortune

In my household, it has led to more chaos than I would like to admit.

From Fortune

Neil Carson, the CEO of rival data startup Yellowbrick, admits that Snowflake’s software is a “brilliant innovation.”

From Fortune

President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to force Faubus to admit the students to Central High School.

The sad fact is that more than 41 percent of trans people admit making at least one suicide attempt in their lifetime.

Fulkerson sympathizes with March, and he gets Dryfoos to admit that he should not have spoke to March as he did.

I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.

The interval between possession and hell was short,” he says, “though I admit it was wonderful.

We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.

The case should at such times be opened for a few hours each day to admit the drying air.

However, the fires were stirred up, and things made as comfortable as circumstances would admit of.

I am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.

It is a fine marble, much too hard to admit of minute carving, but taking a high polish.

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On this page you'll find 221 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to admit, such as: accept, concede, enter, grant, introduce, and permit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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