The phrase "admits responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone acknowledging their role or fault in a situation or event.
Example: "The CEO admits responsibility for the company's financial losses during the last quarter."
Alternatives: "acknowledges fault" or "accepts accountability."
"It's not going to go away until the state of New Jersey admits responsibility for the practice".
Medical evidence indicates the cholera strain was brought to Haiti by Nepalese UN peacekeepers, although the UN neither admits responsibility for the outbreak nor agrees to make reparations.
As I write in my latest Letter From Washington, a cover story in Time magazine, the American weekly, shows that many parties are to blame, though none admits responsibility.
Similarly, in his memoir Fugitive Days, Ayers - apparently fearful that he could still face prosecution for his youthful misdemeanours - admits responsibility for planting a bomb in the Pentagon toilets, then almost immediately disclaims it.
In the full transcript Mohammed admits responsibility for 31 actual or planned plots, ranging from the attacks on New York to "an operation to destroy Heathrow airport, the Canary Wharf building and Big Ben on British soil".
Related: Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael admits responsibility for anti-Sturgeon leak Hosie, the SNP's deputy leader at Westminster, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday that Carmichael, who had at first denied involvement in the leak, ought to resign.
Will Sony admit responsibility, out the people responsible, or even hand out NGPs as a sort of media payoff.
No party admitted responsibility.
The Continuity IRA later admitted responsibility.
In court, he admitted responsibility, expressing "heartfelt sorrow".
Today its commander admitted responsibility for the bombs.
