as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
deliberately chose to break the rules
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Recent Examples of deliberately
Though Geralt’s hansa succeeds in besting the priest’s deliberately unfair trial — with Regis demonstrating the (unexplained) power to hold a red-hot horseshoe without being burned — the whole thing turns out to be a farce.
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Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
With this in mind, Browning deliberately worked to humanize the actors.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
In the 1980s, lady beetles began to spread in the United States, following several attempts to deliberately integrate the beetles into the country to control other insect populations.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The chase ended in shocking fashion when an off-duty officer in a Toyota Camry veered into the biker’s path, deliberately collided with him and sent him and his motorcycle soaring into the air.
—Joseph Wilkinson, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
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Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
With this in mind, Browning deliberately worked to humanize the actors.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
In the 1980s, lady beetles began to spread in the United States, following several attempts to deliberately integrate the beetles into the country to control other insect populations.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The chase ended in shocking fashion when an off-duty officer in a Toyota Camry veered into the biker’s path, deliberately collided with him and sent him and his motorcycle soaring into the air.
—Joseph Wilkinson, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deliberately
Adverb
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Dispatch audio obtained by PEOPLE confirmed that Kneeland’s girlfriend dialed 911, afraid that the football star would intentionally harm himself.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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The city of Craig has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle claims brought by a man who suffered major injuries after a law enforcement officer intentionally plowed into him with an SUV.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
7 Nov. 2025
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Washington hit the first of his three free throws but missed the second, which inspired him to purposely miss the third attempt.—
Eric Nehm,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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According to Adams, Koehler forced the woman from her upstairs bedroom down to downstairs, purposely disorienting her — the basis for the kidnapping charge he was also found guilty of.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Deliberately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deliberately. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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