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Recent Examples of unknowingly
Argentine officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the leading hypothesis is that the couple may have been exposed to rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city of Ushuaia, unknowingly contracting the virus before boarding the cruise ship.
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Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
This is extremely dangerous for officers and first responders to unknowingly interact with an individual with an active warrant.
—Silvana Tabares, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
Tung also offered advice for consumers seeking to avoid unknowingly supporting such practices.
—Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 3 May 2026
In fact, many passengers unknowingly make small mistakes in premium cabins that can affect both their own comfort and the overall flight experience.
—Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
Players who were born in the Netherlands and play club football in the country, but have declared for Indonesia, have, in theory, unknowingly not been allowed to fulfil work commitments without a work permit.
—Colin Millar, New York Times, 1 May 2026
That window is your most actionable lever and also the one most people unknowingly sabotage.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
As part of the program, test subjects were unknowingly given LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogen.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
And while intention matters, some behaviors can unknowingly leave soured edges around a visit that’s otherwise completely lovely.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
This is extremely dangerous for officers and first responders to unknowingly interact with an individual with an active warrant.
—Silvana Tabares, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
Tung also offered advice for consumers seeking to avoid unknowingly supporting such practices.
—Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 3 May 2026
In fact, many passengers unknowingly make small mistakes in premium cabins that can affect both their own comfort and the overall flight experience.
—Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
Players who were born in the Netherlands and play club football in the country, but have declared for Indonesia, have, in theory, unknowingly not been allowed to fulfil work commitments without a work permit.
—Colin Millar, New York Times, 1 May 2026
That window is your most actionable lever and also the one most people unknowingly sabotage.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
As part of the program, test subjects were unknowingly given LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogen.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
And while intention matters, some behaviors can unknowingly leave soured edges around a visit that’s otherwise completely lovely.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowingly
Adverb
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Do painters unconsciously use similar shapes, contours or compositions to elicit an emotional response?—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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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
Adverb
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Set in 1986, the story follows two brothers, Irwin and Gary Pearl, whose get-rich scheme to help clean up the Gowanus Canal ends in disaster after Irwin (Teller), a nebbish family man, angers Russian mobsters by unwittingly witnessing their criminal activity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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Commencing an investigation, Bernal unwittingly assigns Dahlia and his nephew Charlie, an ex-cop and Dahlia’s ex-lover, leading to a fraught reunion.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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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
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“Unknowingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowingly. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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