The phrase "acknowledged winner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who has been officially recognized as the winner of a competition or contest.
Example: "After a thorough review of the results, Jane was declared the acknowledged winner of the art competition."
Alternatives: "recognized winner" or "certified winner".
Obviously not Nick Clegg, the acknowledged winner.
The widely acknowledged winner is an idea called "inflation", an extension of Big Bang theory that covers the first split-second of time.Inflation was concocted in 1979 by Alan Guth, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
French officials said that they were also concerned that a lengthy conflict might reproduce the intercommunal killings that happened in Duékoué, in western Ivory Coast, some of which were laid at the door of the forces of Alassane Ouattara, the internationally acknowledged winner of last year's presidential election.
The battle for Abidjan finally appears to be going in favour of Alassane Ouattara, the internationally acknowledged winner of the 2010 election in Ivory Coast, but the bloody manner of his victory will make his inauguration as a northerner in the south even more difficult than ever after almost 10 years of hot and cold war.
The report was issued after a week of intensified street fighting in the main city of Abidjan between forces loyal to Gbagbo and Ouattara, the widely acknowledged election winner, that left dozens dead.
By campaign's end, Clinton had won 1,640 pledged delegates to Obama's 1,763; at the time of the clinching, Clinton had 286 superdelegates to Obama's 395, with those numbers widening to 256 versus 438 once Obama was acknowledged the winner.
Although we believe our study to be the first to rigorously examine the phenomenon of disappearing magazines from practice waiting rooms, we have to acknowledge Pulitzer Prize winner and humourist Hal Boyle who wrote on this very topic 44 years ago.
Di Luca, the 2007 Giro winner, acknowledged that they — and the other Italians in the race — had been trying to put time between themselves and Armstrong.
The World Cup winner acknowledged the fans' unhappiness with the perceived dullness of Van Gaal's style compared with the attack-minded, free-flowing United sides of the past but insisted there was more than one way to achieve success.
Nguygen Thi Xuan Anh of Vietnam, who won the women's push-rim division, was not initially acknowledged as the winner because the timekeeper thought she was a man.
The prize, which aims to reward the best science fiction published in the UK, sees a young adult writer up against one best known for "literary" novels and a first-time contender from a small press alongside a previous winner acknowledged as one of the giants of the genre.
