The phrase "a form of acknowledgment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different ways to recognize or validate something, such as an action, contribution, or event.
Example: "Sending a thank-you note is a form of acknowledgment that shows appreciation for someone's help."
Alternatives: "a type of recognition" or "a means of validation."
(It's also plausible that some stickers inspire fellow motorists to extend another digit as a form of acknowledgment).
The drone is low enough for him to spot; he stares back at Carrie in a form of acknowledgment unique to our era — recognition by technological proxy.
In recent years, the church has come up with a form of acknowledgment of controversial businessmen: awarding them with the title Archon, a hitherto unknown practice in the country.
In our review, "identification" referred to any form of acknowledgment by a clinician during a consultation that the woman had experienced exposure to intimate partner violence.
This was the time when I deeply desired any form of acknowledgment from a white person, any form of validation from a white person―whether it was from a teacher, a neighbor, a friend, a random girl or a random boy.
My physical symptoms are made worse by the anxiety caused by never knowing where I was held, and not having any form of acknowledgment that I was disappeared and tortured by the U.S. government.
Much of Mr. Comey's testimony before the committee was encouraging — particularly his unequivocal rejection of waterboarding as a form of torture, his acknowledgment that whistle-blowers are a "critical" part of a functioning democracy, and his openness to the idea that summaries of certain rulings by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court should be declassified.
As for the act itself: "For me, it is a shared intimacy, a form of liberation, and an acknowledgment of one's basic animal origins".
One form of acknowledgment might be the practice of theism — traditional religion with its rituals, sacred texts, formal prayers, proscribed and prescribed activities; but the conviction of the universe's beauty does not, says Dworkin, "suppose any god" as its ground.
