The phrase "acknowledge something as" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express recognition or acceptance of a particular fact, status, or identity.
Example: "The committee decided to acknowledge the project as a significant contribution to the community."
Alternatives: "recognize something as" or "accept something as".
Granted, Obama and his deputies shoulder blame for making it easy for people to believe that acknowledging something as obvious as increasing health insurance premiums constitutes news.
It also helps to acknowledge something outside your own sphere.
This is, as the article acknowledges, something of a false comparison Barcelona is Spain's second-biggest city, with plenty of other industries and big suburbs.
The great Google engine had acknowledged something — but what?
His prescription, which was specifically given for and calculated to be a lethal overdose, is contemplated as something "to cause death (to kill her)", then "for sleep", then acknowledged as something that is 'not safe for sleep' (pp 1039 1040) [ 35].
Will 2016 be the year when animation is finally acknowledged as something other than a childish adjunct to the more serious trajectories of "live action" movies?
Once a neighborhood boy was allowed to take out the uniform and wear it to a costume party, but mostly it just sat there, acknowledged as something special but mostly ignored.
The world has acclimated to the fact that people might go online to find a mate, but there are fewer formal avenues through which to find friends, perhaps because friendship is not always acknowledged as something that people have to go out in search of.
While, if it cropped up in an interview, 'coughing up blood' was universally acknowledged as something warranting immediate medical attention, its appearance might be attributed to any number of other lung problems apart from cancer.
There's this dark side that needs to be dealt with, but the Korean community as a whole will not acknowledge that something is up.
