as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
she consciously chose to take the more dangerous route down the mountain
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Recent Examples of consciously
That was Ric consciously wanting to challenge the listeners.
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Lily Wohlner, Allure, 23 Sep. 2025
Success will depend on partnering with teams who can orchestrate the full production stack, integrate AI consciously and ensure that every asset not only delivers quality but earns its place in the brand’s story.
—Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2025
Companies that consciously nurture civility build cultures of trust, creativity and resilience — and set their employees, businesses and the nation as a whole up for success.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
But Rejection does not hide behind the ironic, the provocative, the self-consciously confrontational.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
This means regularly assessing your thinking skills, consciously choosing when to engage versus delegate mental tasks, and maintaining practices that keep your mind sharp.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Dating consciously and intentionally, with a checklist of desirable qualities and a determination not to hurt anyone’s feelings—what a great way to keep him out of your business.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Rossellini’s film is part of a distinctive canon of modernist melodramas that self-consciously acknowledge the tension of those oppositions and foreground their symbolic disruption of realistic conventions.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Lily Wohlner, Allure, 23 Sep. 2025
Success will depend on partnering with teams who can orchestrate the full production stack, integrate AI consciously and ensure that every asset not only delivers quality but earns its place in the brand’s story.
—Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2025
Companies that consciously nurture civility build cultures of trust, creativity and resilience — and set their employees, businesses and the nation as a whole up for success.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
But Rejection does not hide behind the ironic, the provocative, the self-consciously confrontational.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
This means regularly assessing your thinking skills, consciously choosing when to engage versus delegate mental tasks, and maintaining practices that keep your mind sharp.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Dating consciously and intentionally, with a checklist of desirable qualities and a determination not to hurt anyone’s feelings—what a great way to keep him out of your business.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Rossellini’s film is part of a distinctive canon of modernist melodramas that self-consciously acknowledge the tension of those oppositions and foreground their symbolic disruption of realistic conventions.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consciously
Adverb
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By the end of a run, players could have as many as 15 boons which, on top of temporary weapon upgrades, blessings from Moon, familiars, and more, creates a dizzying amount of customization that’s almost impossible to intentionally recreate verbatim on the regular.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Most of the female characters in One Battle After Another are Black, and while the film features far fewer faces than Pynchon’s sprawling, expansive book, Anderson has intentionally altered the races of the characters based on Frenesi, Prairie, and DL for his film.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But this approach manages to frame the situation in a neutral way, without assuming your neighbor was deliberately trying to disturb you, says Larry Schooler, a professor of conflict resolution at the University of Texas at Austin.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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India, for example, is home to some of the largest AI talent and plans to release a deliberately non-prescriptive AI governance framework.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Consciously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consciously. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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