Definitions
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- adjective Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
admit .
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Examples
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So she *admitted* she cheated w/o realizing she had admitted it.
In which I fantasize. Angry Professor 2006
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Actually, Ma's approval rating in Taipei has plummeted 22 points in recent polls, the 1992 consensus was exposed as a fiction when the legislator who coined the term admitted he made it up -- there is no 1992 consensus.
Taiwan's Fading Independence Movement? Or Robert Ross' Fading Understanding? Michael Turton 2006
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Actually, Ma's approval rating in Taipei has plummeted 22 points in recent polls, the 1992 consensus was exposed as a fiction when the legislator who coined the term admitted he made it up -- there is no 1992 consensus.
Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006
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I fail to see how it could possibly just be to reaffirm what RTD has admitted is a mistake.
Pony Pep Talk Needed...ARRGGH! rabid1st 2009
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Well, just a few weeks ago the Obama admin admitted that the website was not giving out the correct information: they had left out many different areas in which the stimulus money was being spent (seriously, how does buying condoms to distribute in homeless shelters stimulate the economy?) and they had messed up on their jobs saved numbers as well - in fact, they had over-estimated by over 60,000 jobs.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Under oath Palin admitted she thought hacking was that someone had coughed on her cell phone.
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Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin admitted Friday that he is “in the dark” about the national health care bill currently under construction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
I’m gobsmacked. So is Sen. McCain. Heck, so is Sen. Durbin. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Anyone that says that the current demostrations are not about racism to a larger degree then admitted is either stupid, ignorant or literally has their head in the sand.
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Her party, she admitted, is working hard to polish its public image, and is fighting through the courts to be removed from the watchlist of Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which has the movement under surveillance for its anti-foreigner rhetoric.
German far right emerges from shadows to join Cologne campaign against mosque Kate Connolly in Cologne 2010
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MR. GOWDY: The vast majority allow it and they have for some time, and we believe that the fact that it has been allowed for so long and imposed so rarely, as the States themselves have admitted, is — is strong evidence of societal consensus.
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