unacknowledged

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Cultural appropriation is defined as "the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, of one people or society by members of a typically more dominant people or society".

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025

We all have losses and grief that is unacknowledged and unexpressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

Eriksen notes that there are unacknowledged trade-offs in many of these new code provisions.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2025

To me there seems to be a mismatch, an unacknowledged element to the definition, which is that it has to counter some official narratives.

From Salon • May 5, 2024

Suddenly it seemed that there was a hitherto unacknowledged problem with the word ‘revolution’ and indeed with the word ‘science’, too, for these are our words, not theirs.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton