amount to acknowledgement

Frequency: 5.83.9 per million words

to be equivalent to an admission or recognition

acknowledgementVERB + ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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amount to

Examples (10)

  • This amounted to an acknowledgement that she had been wrong.
  • His silence on the matter amounts to an acknowledgement of guilt.
  • Paying the fine without protest could amount to an acknowledgement of liability.
  • The company's public apology amounted to a tacit acknowledgement of their mistake.
  • Withdrawing their product from the market amounted to a clear acknowledgement that it was faulty.
  • Does their refusal to comment really amount to an acknowledgement of the problem?
  • For the government, releasing the documents would amount to an acknowledgement of prior knowledge.
  • His brief nod amounted to a quiet acknowledgement of her contribution.
  • The recent policy change has amounted to an official acknowledgement of the system's failures.
  • The team's decision to start over amounted to a full acknowledgement that their initial strategy had failed.