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My brilliance should be acknowledged in the form of a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
to acknowledge is a verb
acknowledged is either a verb or a past participle (a kind of adjective)
the acknowledged is an adjective (past participle) being used as a noun
Why did Nero have self-acknowledged Christians arrested first?
No. Kyirux is a work of fiction. It is not actually "real," and therefor not acknowledged by the government.