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

In a side note with historical resonance unacknowledged by the commission, the proposed independent spinoff of SafeSport is compared to the evolution of the U.S.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024

That’s why human men and women are the unacknowledged necessity they are.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black