owndeterminerpronoun
admission
By her own admission, she took a long time to develop her own style.
Perhaps they would care to explain why, by their own admission, they did absolutely nothing to catch the culprit.
By his own admission, he was a bit of a misfit at school.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
concede
confess
hand
self-admittedly
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back
to be honest (with you)idiom