The phrase "accepted victory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone acknowledging or agreeing to a win or success in a competition or conflict.
Example: "After a long and challenging match, the team finally accepted victory and celebrated their hard work."
Alternatives: "acknowledged triumph" or "embraced success."
They accepted victory and defeat graciously.
When Mr. Romney accepted victory, he kept his sights squarely on Mr. Obama.
Her narrow and politely accepted victory may yet prove the easiest part of Miss Cantwell's new life.
Obama had voted near his house, on the South Side, and then accepted victory that night, flanked by his wife and daughters, in Grant Park.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the 43-year-old lawyer who will become prime minister, accepted victory at his party's campaign headquarters by asking for a moment of silence for the bombing victims.
Ovett, the barrel-chested bruiser, strolling around the track like the very incarnation of Kipling's dictum to accept victory and defeat with equal panache.
Mr. Romney moved to quickly set the tone of the night, accepting victory and delivering a speech with broad themes of the general election, well before the size of his winning margin was known.
Accepting victory, Corbyn said: "We go forward now as a movement and a party, bigger than we have ever been in a very, very long time, stronger than we have been for a very long time, more determined than we have been for a very long time, to show to everyone that the objectives of our party are intact, our passion is intact, our demand for humanity is intact".
But the South Africa-born Englishman won them over with his manner in accepting victory.
Otherwise, once you've had your day in the ring or your day in court, have the good grace to accept victory or defeat and exit the arena with some class.
Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, said the GOP needs to accept victory in the debate over tax rates for the highest earners and move on, rather than continue to make that the basis of its clashes with Democrats.
