The phrase "almost everyone recognized" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation where a large majority of people are aware of or familiar with something or someone.
Example: "At the event, almost everyone recognized the famous actor who had just walked in."
Alternatives: "nearly everyone acknowledged" or "most people identified".
In 150 interviews, the consultant said, almost everyone recognized racial disparity.
Almost everyone recognized the need to improve the economic climate.
The latest stage in the Greek debt crisis has been the referendum called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose ruling Syriza party was elected on a platform of opposition to the austerity measures imposed by the Eurozone and the International Monetary Fund, in exchange for loans to service what almost everyone recognized are sovereign debts that Athens can never repay.
The first was that many organizations that we might expect to play a role in alcohol policy were almost entirely disengaged: while almost everyone recognized that there was a problem (even if they disagreed about its nature) they believed that they could do nothing about it.
It implies a level of global interventionism that almost everyone recognizes is quite impractical.
Since almost everyone recognizes that menu prices have little connection with the actual cost of the food, the Tokyo restaurant charges patrons by elapsed time at the table!
Some call this capacity for mastery, others think of it as velocity of learning; but almost everyone recognizes this as a person's potential.
But here's the scary part: even though almost everyone recognizes the life-threatening dangers associated with distracted driving, more than a third of those same respondents also said they had read or sent a text message while driving in the last month.
Nearly everyone recognized it.
Surely, almost everyone there recognized it: the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr.
Almost everyone involved recognizes that the system needs fixing.
