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
Later, the two men and Ortega-Camero met at an intersection, then Ortega-Camero intentionally crashed into the motorcyclists, which pushed them into oncoming traffic, police said.
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Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Hurlbut said there was nothing indicating it was done intentionally.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025
When introduced in season two, Ahlers’s plotline was among the sillier developments on an intentionally fluffy show, sandwiched between scenes of striking railroad workers and opera-house battles.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
That calling-out was quickly followed by a louder and nastier wave of disdain that people would dare suggest the ad was intentionally about race — or that everyone was being stupid for talking about jeans anyway.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
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Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Hurlbut said there was nothing indicating it was done intentionally.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025
When introduced in season two, Ahlers’s plotline was among the sillier developments on an intentionally fluffy show, sandwiched between scenes of striking railroad workers and opera-house battles.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
That calling-out was quickly followed by a louder and nastier wave of disdain that people would dare suggest the ad was intentionally about race — or that everyone was being stupid for talking about jeans anyway.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intentionally
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Their erasure was not only physical but historical, deliberately left out of textbooks and maps.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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From painting it on her hand before concerts to deliberately using it as an Easter egg in her album rollouts, Swift has a big reputation for keeping 13 at the heart of her legacy.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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At that time landlords purposely overbuilt to avoid complying with an expensive new zoning law, which went into effect in 1963 and raised the standards for open space and light.—
Nicholas Pileggi,
Curbed,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Crack Shack’s fried chicken is purposely not Southern.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Intentionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intentionally. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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