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

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

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2025

It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 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

It was the elephant on the road, and it would remain unacknowledged.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel