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The phrase "acknowledged were not" is not correct and does not form a coherent expression in written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of recognition or acceptance, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The issues raised were acknowledged, but the concerns were not addressed."
Alternatives: "were not recognized" or "were not accepted".
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Some of those, he acknowledged, were not North Carolina residents.
Artists he looked to for inspiration, Mr. Oldenburg has acknowledged, were not the "sunny" ones like Matisse, but darker visionaries like Goya, Rouault and Dubuffet.
That was not all they had to contend with: Prosecutors in both cases were asking for murder convictions for the defendants who, the authorities acknowledged, were not the men who fired the fatal shots.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, as it is called, stops short of empowering the F.D.A. to outlaw smoking or ban nicotine — strictures that even most antismoking advocates acknowledged were not politically feasible and might drive people addicted to nicotine into a criminal black market.
Yet these relationships, while acknowledged, were not the focus of the studies.
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The existing regulatory system, a diamond industry executive acknowledged, "is not a perfect construct.
The responsibility, Mr. Voigt acknowledged, was not only an American one.
Mr. Essawi said that the one bomb he acknowledged was not inside Mr. Dulaimi's compound.
All the fuss, it must be acknowledged, is not entirely about cows, art or the Swiss image.
Compensating for an undesirable behavior, he acknowledged, is not the same as understanding why it occurs in the first place.
User feedback, it acknowledged, "was not positive".
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