as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
deliberately chose to break the rules
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Recent Examples of deliberately
Chicago Police Department brass accused Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration of deliberately slowing down paychecks for dozens of employees this summer in a fiery email that warned the city was jeopardizing its compliance with the federal consent decree.
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Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Pete Buttigieg deliberately allowed Mexico to break our bilateral aviation agreement.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
But police believed the knife had been deliberately placed in Matthew's hand.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 18 July 2025
Subscribe now Like other experts whom CNBC spoke to, Raghunathan established market manipulation as deliberately misleading or influencing prices and trading volumes to create artificial trends or unfair advantages, such as pump-and-dump schemes and wash trading.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 July 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Pete Buttigieg deliberately allowed Mexico to break our bilateral aviation agreement.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
But police believed the knife had been deliberately placed in Matthew's hand.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 18 July 2025
Subscribe now Like other experts whom CNBC spoke to, Raghunathan established market manipulation as deliberately misleading or influencing prices and trading volumes to create artificial trends or unfair advantages, such as pump-and-dump schemes and wash trading.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deliberately
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That calling-out was quickly followed by a louder and nastier wave of disdain that people would dare suggest the ad was intentionally about race — or that everyone was being stupid for talking about jeans anyway.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
2 Aug. 2025
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Hill intentionally wrecked Aric Almirola last weekend and was handed a one-race suspension by NASCAR.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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That at least some of the wood was actually stained concrete and steel didn’t seem to register for most visitors, whose attention was purposely guided outside.—
Tom Zoellner,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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Horn and Jackson purposely did their warmup drills catching the ball near Young on Wednesday.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
23 July 2025
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“Deliberately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deliberately. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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