unacknowledged

Example Sentences

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Cultural appropriation is defined as "the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, of one people or society by members of a typically more dominant people or society".

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025

Shanks expects us to clock the unacknowledged wedding ring on Herriman’s Jamie, a Hallmark rom-com charmer, and so his script takes our suspicions and twists them once, twice and a third time for good measure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025

Eriksen notes that there are unacknowledged trade-offs in many of these new code provisions.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2025

It sets out to redress an imbalance — that the real-life Purdy, a nurse, was long unacknowledged for her work.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Courtier girls are watching him; some giggle behind their gloved hands and painted fans, and others ask him questions he leaves unacknowledged.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton