The phrase "admitted early on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone acknowledging or confessing something at the beginning of a discussion or situation.
Example: "During the meeting, she admitted early on that she had made a mistake in her calculations."
Alternatives: "acknowledged from the start" or "confessed at the outset."
Caf President Issa Hayatou admitted earlier on Friday that refereeing mistakes had been made at the tournament.
Rojas admits early on that "New York's critical debates on the Cuban Revolution naturally had few effects" on Washington's approach to Cuba.
Reno admits early on that she is capable of waiting: "To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it".
Graham, who is currently single, admits early on in our time together that: "I'm not very good at all those w**ky phrases like 'self-care' [or] eating and sleeping and staying warm.
As the author admits early on, "It must be said, [they] agreed more than they disagreed". Where they diverge, their differences are more of style than of substance, of instinct than of principle.
Bill Bryson's latest book is subtitled More Notes from a Small Island, and, as he cheerily admits early on, the major reason for a follow-up to his bestselling travel book was a commercial one.
"I headed into college believing that the feminists of the sixties and seventies had done the hard work of achieving equality for my generation," she admits early on in "Lean In".
Well, the first date is always a bit of a job interview, and among the first questions you expect when you're a parent is, "How old are your kids?" My problem is if I admit early on that I have a teenager who needs a baby sitter, I more or less have to explain that my son is autistic.
His subjects, all summoned rather pointedly from the past, "do have a certain radiance in my eyes," he happily admits early on, adding, "underlying all my attentions is a collegial homage, a sympathy, even a love for the aesthetic struggle as it shines with a kind of blessedness".
