The phrase "acknowledges explicitly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that someone is openly and clearly recognizing or admitting something.
Example: "The report acknowledges explicitly the challenges faced by the team during the project."
Alternatives: "recognizes clearly" or "admits openly".
Voters will not give Labour a hearing on the economy, they argue, until it acknowledges explicitly that it spent too much money in government.
In fact, the Home Office acknowledges explicitly that the government's approach to out-of-country appeals is to do as little as possible to comply with the European convention on human rights.
The Triple Helix acknowledges explicitly the importance of higher education for innovation.
This approach acknowledges explicitly that AD-P in the absence of clinical symptoms should not be seen as a disease state, and should not be diagnosed as such.
The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP, see Appendix S2 for details) acknowledges explicitly the need to avoid the isolation of protected areas with a broader land-use policy and the importance of a successful development of European ecological networks for the conservation and development of biodiversity.
And, for sure, let us not acknowledge explicitly that this is also the season of Hanukkah, Id al-Fitr, Kwanzaa and, lest Wiccans feel slighted, the winter solstice.
I acknowledge explicitly in my paper that migration [people moving] is something that I cannot control for directly and is a potential threat to my research design.
Such a vision – "often implied but rarely acknowledged explicitly for fear of cynical ridicule" according to Billings – has guided space exploration since its inception when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dreamed up the first space rockets in a remote log cabin in the late 19th century.
At such moments, it would probably be much better for everyone if the coalition leaders — Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron — took to a collective podium and acknowledged explicitly that, yes, they were in fact trying, as Senator Lindsey Graham so frothily put it, "to cut the head of the snake off," but that they were nonetheless sorry about the loss of life of innocent members of his family.
Despite the president's refusal (so far) to acknowledge explicitly that he gave the order to kill Awlaki, there is no doubt, whether through a signed intelligence "finding", classified executive order, or extensive briefings about the US target list, the ultimate command responsibility was Obama's.
In particular, the adaptive potential (producing positive effects) of anxiety was acknowledged explicitly by including a regulatory dimension.
