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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Verbatim Thurgood Marshall In a speech marking the bicentennial of the US Constitution, Marshall argued that its framers intentionally inscribed slavery into the American economy.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Charlotte Observer asked CATS spokesperson Brett Baldeck whether the agency was intentionally shifting away from armed security.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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City police said the blast before dawn in northern Munich at a residential building, which had been deliberately set on fire, appeared connected to a domestic dispute.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Program officials set a two-year path to mass production following test completion, with full Taiwan manufacture and target unit costs in the low hundreds of thousands USD, deliberately priced for salvo fire.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Consciously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consciously. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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