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as in recklessly
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as in wastefully
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Recent Examples of wantonly
Likewise, a circumstance all by itself could be the matter of regulating AI makers about allowing their AI to wantonly provide mental health advice.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wantonly
Adverb
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Officers had been called to a gas station, also on Linden Street, for a report of someone driving recklessly and a possible physical dispute.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2026
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The same way Tony played recklessly.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
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On a pretty dead pitch offering very little to the bowlers, the quartet wastefully surrendered their wickets for all that England deserved credit (particularly Archer) for persistence and a generally probing line after what had been a fairly disastrous start to the day from Carse.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
17 Dec. 2025
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Tanner plunges into these ostentatiously autobiographical roles, heedlessly, hectically and without a psychiatric net.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The family searched desperately for their bodies and eventually found them at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center south of Tehran.—
Babak Dehghanpisheh,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Hey, to the desperately thirsty, even a sip from a mud puddle tastes good.—
Greg Cote
February 11,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Craving something indulgently sweet?—
Jennifer Hussein,
InStyle,
18 Jan. 2026
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Yet Göring dominates the movie thanks to Russell Crowe’s performance, somehow both indulgently big and dexterously subtle.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2025
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At the start of the decade, qualified buyers could lock in rates comfortably under 4%, but that changed in the years that followed, thanks to high inflation and elevated interest rates designed to cool it.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Kim will look to go back-to-back-to-back and win a third consecutive halfpipe gold in tomorrow's final after comfortably topping the leaderboard in this morning's qualifying, and she will be joined by two of her Team USA teammates.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Wantonly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wantonly. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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