Sentence examples for all but acknowledging from inspiring English sources

The phrase "all but acknowledging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is very close to acknowledging something, but has not explicitly done so.
Example: "He was all but acknowledging his mistake when he started to apologize."
Alternatives: "practically admitting" or "virtually recognizing".

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Sports, Nascar is "all but acknowledging there was something illegitimate about the win".

On Wednesday, it appeared that the Russian Foreign Ministry was all but acknowledging that the authorities had made a mistake and were trying to persuade Mr. Harding to return.

MOSCOW — A week after a British journalist was expelled from Russia, the authorities allowed him to return on Saturday night — all but acknowledging that they had made a mistake that had harmed the country's effort to improve its image abroad.

In his guilty plea, Francis admitted he was entitled to the interest income from the account, all but acknowledging the account belonged to him.

For the Right, the great irony here is that by foisting the Kyoto-Copenhagen burden on India and China, they are all but acknowledging the validity of the climate change arguments they were loathe to embrace.

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Finally he gestured toward an actual proposal, which he all-but-acknowledged he wouldn't fight for: "part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced".

With the exception perhaps of Ashley Cole for Luke Shaw and Michael Carrick for Ross Barkley, this is simply what Hodgson had in front of him, a fact he all-but acknowledged in Luton.

He all but acknowledged it himself.

There is no fat left, as Nick Boles all but acknowledged".

On Friday, they all but acknowledged just how badly they had lost their way.

Obama all but acknowledged the hunger strike's role: I know the politics are hard.

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