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The phrase "acknowledged complicity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone admits to being involved in or responsible for a wrongdoing or unethical behavior.
Example: "The report revealed the company's acknowledged complicity in the environmental violations."
Alternatives: "admitted involvement" or "recognized participation".
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Then-President Jacques Chiraq, speaking in 1995 at the Vel D'Hiv, acknowledged complicity and urged the French not to look away.
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More importantly, they are a short-cut to "the Shaggy defence", a way of sidestepping the need to acknowledge complicity – it wasn't me!
Still, this Speer is bright enough to realize that ignorance may be willed and turning away can itself be a crime, perhaps more heinous than acknowledging complicity and paying the penalty.
An international organization that seeks compensation for Holocaust survivors said yesterday that it planned to pressure the Austrian government to acknowledge complicity during the Nazi regime and to improve reparations to Jews.
To acknowledge complicity on the part of church leaders runs the risk of calling into question Brigham Young's divinity and the Mormon belief that they are God's chosen people.
More encouraging to Diaz are those amazed responses that acknowledge complicity, even if as an unaware accessory.
Girardi also said that Yankees fans would be not harsh because Pettitte had acknowledged his complicity right away.
Colin Firth, who received an Oscar nod for his role as a tragically closeted professor in last year's A Single Man, acknowledged his complicity in Hollywood's gay problem.
Alford herself acknowledges her complicity.
Until it acknowledges this complicity, relations between the two faiths will always be compromised.
Bolin acknowledges this complicity in the culture at large without always seeing it at work in her own life.
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