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Discover LudwigThe term "acknowledged error" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an error that has been previously identified and recognised. For example: The acknowledged error in the system design was fixed in the latest system update.
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Implicitly, Summers has acknowledged error.
Sued by the Singapore Government in Singapore courts, the paper took the advice of its lawyers and acknowledged error.
The audience for his subsequent speech enthusiastically greeted Mr. Clinton today, and interrupted him with applause each time he acknowledged error by the international community.
This article was amended on 25 January 2019 to refer expressly to teargas, and to omit a reference to shelling after the UN acknowledged error in its published material on which the reference to shelling had been based.
And since Mr. McNamara seems to have generated more scorn than those who never acknowledged error -- e.g., Dean Rusk, Henry Kissinger, and three American presidents -- it is unlikely that other officials will be eager to follow his example.
On several issues where I was expecting to meet resistance, and therefore have to push him, he instead put his hands up and acknowledged error.
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Blair acknowledged errors but did not repent.
Mrs. Clinton has often acknowledged errors.
Professor Bellesiles acknowledged errors and apologized for them.
The Finance Ministry today acknowledged "errors in our supervisory system in reforming the financial sector".
Several of them acknowledged errors or misunderstandings of the open-courts policy.
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