The phrase "acknowledged to play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that someone or something has been recognized for their role or contribution in a particular activity or situation.
Example: "The scientist was acknowledged to play a crucial role in the development of the new vaccine."
Alternatives: "recognized for playing" or "acknowledged for their role in".
Inappropriate resolution mechanism(s) may underlie our current appreciation of the inflammatory phenotype(s) that characterizes many prevalent human diseases where inflammation is now acknowledged to play an important role in the disease process.
Many studies focus on a single species acknowledged to play a key role in a pathogen's transmission.
Similar scenarios are also occurring across the developed world and diagnostic substitution is acknowledged to play a determining role in the increased prevalence of autism [41], [57].
Within the last decade, monocyte heterogeneity was acknowledged to play a role in atherogenesis [16,17].
However, HGT is also increasingly acknowledged to play an important role in animals [ 2].
This cell-to-cell heterogeneity is widely acknowledged to play key roles in chemoresistance and tumor recurrence.
It's often a strain, she acknowledges, to play the role of the grateful hero's widow when she has been left alone to face a future bereft of the man she waited so long for.
Insiders insist there was no magic bullet, but two pieces of obscure software developed by Labour HQ are widely acknowledged to have played a significant role.
While football was invented in New Jersey -- Rutgers and Princeton are generally acknowledged to have played the first game on Nov. 6, 1869, in New Brunswick -- the state is hardly known as a bastion of football champions.
In the case of the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A). in Uganda, for example, I.C.C. arrest warrants against Joseph Kony and his top commanders are widely acknowledged to have played an important role in bringing the rebels to the negotiating table in the Juba Peace Process.
Both local contexts and global fluidity, both entrenched power relations and opportunities for autonomy, and both subversion and transformation are acknowledged to be at play, sometimes within the same setting.
