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
When a system's actions fall outside the parameters anyone consciously designed, the question of who bears the cost becomes genuinely contested.
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Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Smart studios are consciously trying to build this audience and don’t view it as an anomaly.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Eden Stuart, Allure, 29 May 2026
Frances says the objective is to center energy and to create the world one desires consciously.
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
No, not not consciously, at least.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 May 2026
Credit, then, to Favreau and his co-writers, Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, who have consciously made The Mandalorian and Grogu more self-contained.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
That lesson has been absorbed — instinctively, if not always consciously — by a generation of online creators now moving into feature filmmaking with their audiences already in tow.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Even when no one is consciously building a campaign or policy around a caricature, these assumptions shape thinking in ways that are hard to detect and harder to reverse.
—Alex Cooper, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Smart studios are consciously trying to build this audience and don’t view it as an anomaly.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Eden Stuart, Allure, 29 May 2026
Frances says the objective is to center energy and to create the world one desires consciously.
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
No, not not consciously, at least.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 May 2026
Credit, then, to Favreau and his co-writers, Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, who have consciously made The Mandalorian and Grogu more self-contained.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
That lesson has been absorbed — instinctively, if not always consciously — by a generation of online creators now moving into feature filmmaking with their audiences already in tow.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Even when no one is consciously building a campaign or policy around a caricature, these assumptions shape thinking in ways that are hard to detect and harder to reverse.
—Alex Cooper, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consciously
Adverb
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The Justice Department said last month that UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine intentionally used race for the last three years to discriminate against white and Asian applicants during admissions.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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The collection launched Thursday at Christian Louboutin Mount Street boutique in London, with availability intentionally limited to that location before the pairs are offered by appointment at Coco d’Adda’s Milan atelier.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
Adverb
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Adding scientists to the corps in the late 1960s, and deliberately recruiting women and Black astronauts in the 1970s, were widely hailed as steps the agency was taking back then towards diversity.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
10 June 2026
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Although the 78 skeletons found piled atop one another in Vráble could suggest some kind of massacre took place, the researchers said their analyses so far indicate they were deliberately interred that way, potentially as part of a Neolithic cultural tradition.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Consciously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consciously. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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