The phrase "admit recognizing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone acknowledges their awareness or acknowledgment of something, often in a context of honesty or confession.
Example: "I have to admit recognizing the challenges we face in this project."
Alternatives: "acknowledge knowing" or "confess to recognizing".
Even if standards have declined since I graduated, I'm sure that the young people walking up to that podium I ascended more years ago than I care to admit recognize that she enabled one of the costliest -- in spiritual as well as economic terms -- lies anyone has ever perpetrated in the history of this country.
Their recent eight-city tour included a blogger party, and they admit to recognizing most of the faces and handles of their frequent commenters.
Only five herders stated that they can predict a dzud already in summer, whereas four herders admitted to recognizing dzud only in spring time (February ,March), if severe winter weather still prevails.
Among the moderate cosmopolitans, many further distinctions can be drawn, depending on the reasons that are admitted for recognizing special responsibilities to compatriots and depending on how the special responsibilities are balanced with the cosmopolitan duties to human beings generally.
It justifies merely the claim that empathy cannot be their only method, at least as long as one admits that recognizing the thoughts of individual agents has to play some role in the interpretive project of the human sciences.
Although admitting and recognizing its nature, Judge Richard F. Cebull (Montana) suggests that his motives were political in nature rather than racist, and to his credit, apologized to the president and invited an investigation.
And all his other benefactors, Mr. Waters admitted, had recognized him right away.
Then someone admitted they recognized the sloth; he was one of Jessie's fans.
