The phrase "acknowledged a connection between" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the recognition of a relationship or link between two or more subjects, ideas, or entities.
Example: "The researcher acknowledged a connection between climate change and increased natural disasters in her study."
Alternatives: "recognized a link between" or "identified a relationship between".
A top Treasury Department official then sent an e-mail message to staff members that called it a "major screw-up" for the ambassador to explicitly acknowledge a connection between the holdup in development loans and American political concerns in Haiti.
Unlike the tobacco industry, which was eventually forced to put warning labels on cigarette packs, the N.F.L. has yet to acknowledge a connection between league-sponsored violence and conditions like dementia and early-onset Alzheimer's.
The MTBI, which was founded in 1994, hadn't yet acknowledged a link between football and brain damage, but surely this would make the connection clear, right?
How or even whether mold causes human health problems is disputed by public health professionals, but most acknowledge a connection.
But it does suggest that moral realists can acknowledge a necessary connection between moral claims and action without abandoning the cognitivism that is central to their position.
By Tilly's logic, abortion proponents who want to engage their critics will have to become better storytellers — and that, according to the relational principles of such reason-giving, may require them to acknowledge an emotional connection between a mother and a fetus.
The essay, which rambles on for 7,000 words, is in some ways the most typical, turning something that Baker doesn't like – violence, warfare – into something he does – play, imagination, "explorable specificity" – without acknowledging any connection between the two.
What is stark about this is not only the failure to acknowledge the possibility of a connection between sexual abuse and subsequent criminal activity but also, and more fundamentally, the underlying assumption that victims of sexual abuse should not be compensated unless they themselves live blameless lives.
