The phrase "admit reality" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the acceptance of a situation or truth that may be difficult to face.
Example: "It's time to admit reality and recognize that we need to change our approach to the project."
Alternatives: "acknowledge the truth" or "accept the facts."
It was a kind of systematic dishonesty and refusal to admit reality.
They just choose to deny it, because it would be too dangerous to their political well-being to admit reality.
Andrew Brown says (A systematic refusal to admit reality, 21 November) that the Church of England has committed suicide.
The aide pointed to four problems Democrats have with the offer, first arguing that "it doesn't admit reality on tax rates – in fact, it envisions a rate cut for the wealthy".
Children and adolescents operate in a secret world of their own, a kind of callous, Darwinian universe that admits reality as illness and loss, aggression and sexuality.
If one ignores 2008, when banks were forced to clean up their books as they were bailed out, the previous impairment peak was in 2003, when the victims of the dotcom bubble, such as Time Warner, at last admitted reality.Yet tardiness does not mean that goodwill impairments are meaningless.
I think what they did yesterday in terms of the funds target, they're just admitting reality.
Newspaper companies rarely admit that reality, although one US publishing company's internal "manager's guide" was altogether more candid.
Still, Stringer is the first to admit that reality, including losing records in her first two seasons at Rutgers, has often bumped heads with that unabashed confidence.
At its policy-board meeting this week, the central bank was reluctant to admit that reality was at odds with its bullish view, though it acknowledged that momentum had slowed since its last outlook in October.
There is no sign that politicians are ready to admit that reality, and you can see why not – a case this week aroused public wrath as the European court ordered a Somali mother and her four children to be housed by her local authority.
