Acknowledged
Acknowledged adjective - Recognized or made known or admitted.
Open and acknowledged are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Open" instead an adjective "Acknowledged".
Open
Open adjective - Allowing passage without obstruction.
Acknowledged and open are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acknowledged" instead an adjective "Open".
Both words in one sentence
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It has gone through most of its life being barely acknowledged (if at all) by the government, even when it's open knowledge that many advanced aircraft had been developed and tested there over the decades, including the first American jet fighter, the P-59 Airacomet.
Source: Open Secret - This is probably Truth in Television.note It was, though usually it was either enforced, or was even more of an open secret to the point of not bothering with a 'live-in housekeeper' fiction and just outright having acknowledged life-long consorts.
Source: Open Secret -
Kenshin succeeds, only for the real villain, an officer in the army, to have soldiers open fire on the surrendering rebels anyway, killing several, including the leader (who had acknowledged that he'd been wrong).
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