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

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

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2025

It may have been unacknowledged because relations between the U.S. and Mexico had been matchstick-hot since Texas’ independence from Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

It sets out to redress an imbalance — that the real-life Purdy, a nurse, was long unacknowledged for her work.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2024

She was to have been the answer to his unstated, unacknowledged question—where was the life to counter the encroaching nonlife?

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison