as in deliberately
with full awareness of what one is doing
the witness intentionally gave misleading answers to the questions
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Recent Examples of intentionally
Every trip to the electric chair is horrifying; a sequence where an intentionally botched execution ignites a still-living prisoner's screaming head in ghoulish blue flames is up there with any supernatural fright King's ever conceived.
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James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Sometimes, these tools were intentionally broken apart.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
The complaint said Granados had intentionally falsified medical and billing records to mislead Texas pharmacies and insurance providers into providing the medications in violation of the state’s law.
—Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
The following day, the New York City Fire Department confirmed in a post on X that the fire was set intentionally.
—Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Sometimes, these tools were intentionally broken apart.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
The complaint said Granados had intentionally falsified medical and billing records to mislead Texas pharmacies and insurance providers into providing the medications in violation of the state’s law.
—Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
The following day, the New York City Fire Department confirmed in a post on X that the fire was set intentionally.
—Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intentionally
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Bluesky, part of the decentralized internet, is slower paced and caters to niche interests, rewarding internecine fights over minutiae, whereas X is deliberately chaotic, encouraging the gathering of follower-armies and ideological insult-comedy for an audience that may be largely made up of bots.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Mannequin Skin Hair may have gone big this season, but skin went simple, and purposely so.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Edges and hems were purposely left romantically unfinished and raw, with bodices falling off to reveal the construction underneath or skirt panels hanging asymmetrically exposing multiple layers.—
Blue Carreon,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Intentionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intentionally. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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