Sentence examples for admits better from inspiring English sources

The phrase "admits better" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express that someone acknowledges or accepts something in a superior manner, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "He admits better than anyone else when he makes a mistake."
Alternatives: "acknowledges more effectively" or "accepts more readily."

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Abcam's six PhDs are, he admits, "better scientists than myself".

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The young doctor was, he admitted, better placed than the majority of his countrymen in the south.

Yet Liz is not, she ruefully admits, a better mother for having nothing else going.

Parents often pay bribes to get their children admitted at better public schools.

A question that invited him to admit the better side had prevailed was knocked back.

For his part, the Millwall manager, Neil Harris, admitted the better team won.

This would be a difficult thing to admit, but better than continuing to throw good money after bad.

Pearson had no complaints, admitting the better side won, and despite taking four points from the past four games, he thinks Leicester are still in the box seat.

The conflict between their clubs gets into their blood, too, but aside from complaining about specific refereeing decisions, Ferguson admitted the better team won.

The sooner students conduct research on the application process and what it takes to be admitted, the better they understand which classes they need to take and how they should organize their past, current and future activities.

Savage Nation yesterday included long excerpts from the Out Loud podcast (which, I'll admit, sounds better with Savage chuckling underneath), knit together with discursions about Botox, flatulence, the theatre, and whatever else came to mind.

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