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Recent Examples of unconsciously
Do painters unconsciously use similar shapes, contours or compositions to elicit an emotional response?
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Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
While critics have been tough on the Finnish director’s blending of human sentiment and thrashing violence and pyrotechnics, audiences know his brand – consciously or unconsciously.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
There’s not a songwriter out there who won’t have inadvertently, unconsciously, consciously pulled from his work.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Some people seek out conflict, Fisher adds, even unconsciously, because the intensity of it fills an emotional void that healthier outlets aren't meeting.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
At university, Karp focused his research on how people unconsciously transfer aggression through language.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Many of the phrases that diminish women are used unconsciously.
—Susan Madsen, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
In presenting the Best Actor winners, Adrien Brody perfectly, if perhaps unconsciously, echoed Johnson’s remarks from more than 50 years earlier.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Screen or email apnea happens when someone unconsciously holds their breath or breathes more shallowly while looking at their screen to answer emails or texts, explained Dora Kamau, lead mindfulness and meditation teacher at Headspace.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Feb. 2026
Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
While critics have been tough on the Finnish director’s blending of human sentiment and thrashing violence and pyrotechnics, audiences know his brand – consciously or unconsciously.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
There’s not a songwriter out there who won’t have inadvertently, unconsciously, consciously pulled from his work.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Some people seek out conflict, Fisher adds, even unconsciously, because the intensity of it fills an emotional void that healthier outlets aren't meeting.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
At university, Karp focused his research on how people unconsciously transfer aggression through language.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Many of the phrases that diminish women are used unconsciously.
—Susan Madsen, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
In presenting the Best Actor winners, Adrien Brody perfectly, if perhaps unconsciously, echoed Johnson’s remarks from more than 50 years earlier.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Screen or email apnea happens when someone unconsciously holds their breath or breathes more shallowly while looking at their screen to answer emails or texts, explained Dora Kamau, lead mindfulness and meditation teacher at Headspace.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconsciously
Adverb
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Shot in 1914, the young men are unwittingly walking into the future, just as Sander himself was blazing a path others would follow.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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In the series, while visiting Japan on the ultimate foodie adventure, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy unwittingly unleash hundreds of mythical monsters that are causing trouble across the country.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
Adverb
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That decision drives the episode’s final sequence, in which Marcus inadvertently brings together two kids who should have grown up together, Avery Jarrett (née Stevens) and Alex Baldwin.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
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As funding shrinks, communities in hard-to-reach regions, where immunizing children is more expensive to begin with, may inadvertently lose out, exacerbating existing health disparities.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
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Months later, the SMU product suffered a season-ending LCL injury in Week 4 after Patrick Mahomes unintentionally crashed into his knee.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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But at a YouTube creator and press event the night earlier — timed, unintentionally but still tellingly, opposite the Disney upfront — a buzzy gathering with a host of creators suggested just how much energy the Google unit really had.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2026
Adverb
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According to investigators with the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, the fire was accidentally sparked by a person performing work on his residential property.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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More than 90,000 were assaulted and 28 were accidentally killed, the FBI said.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
Adverb
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My doctors didn’t choose it casually.—
Payton Herres,
STAT,
19 May 2026
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What the Research Found About Stigma and Language The team behind the change did not arrive at PMOS casually.—
Samantha Agate,
Sacbee.com,
19 May 2026
Adverb
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Some are dumped carelessly back into local waters.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 May 2026
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Here Athane and Nguyen rather carelessly traffic in AIDS allegory, which clangs badly against the movie’s otherwise silly, lighthearted demeanor.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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Some folks in the band’s organization initially wanted to partner with a big beer company, but fortuitously, somebody countered idea with Dogfish Head.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
26 Apr. 2026
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Sixty years ago, the home opener happened to fortuitously fall during spring break.—
Raymond Daniel Burke,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Mar. 2026
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According to Mavares, investigators then arbitrarily selected which officers would remain detained.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
11 May 2026
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The constitutional principle behind that decision – that citizenship is a fundamental right which can’t be arbitrarily taken away by whoever happens to be in power – applies equally to how the government handles denaturalization cases today.—
Cassandra Burke Robertson,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Unconsciously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconsciously. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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