as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
the puzzle was designedly difficult to decipher
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Adverb
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National magazines like Life and Ebony capitalized on them, running in their pages idealized portraits of domestic abundance that, intentionally or not, projected an image of culinary uniformity.—
Ashley Rose Young,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 June 2026 -
For the past five years, Juneteenth has been recognized as a federal holiday, encouraging people across the country to reflect not only on the nation's tangled past with slavery, but the wider legacy of forgotten, ignored and intentionally buried stories about Black America.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
Adverb
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The extent to which anybody else is aware of the time-loop is ambiguous; the ship’s skipper is an elderly man with no memory of his name, and at times it’s implied that the town has deliberately trapped these men.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
17 June 2026
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Jackson called the allegations knowingly false and deliberately timed to damage him among conservative voters as polling showed the race tightening.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Adverb
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She was charged with simple assault and purposely/knowingly causing a bodily injury.—
Jamie Ballard,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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She was charged with simple assault and purposely/knowingly causing a bodily injury, the outlet also revealed.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
11 June 2026
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“Designedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/designedly. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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