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Adverb
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Since the hotel closed, the building has been used as a training facility for police and been intermittently occupied by homeless people.—
Tyler Faurot,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026 -
Amazon intermittently has physical copies of the series available and sells it for its Kindle e-book platform.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
8 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The resulting hodge-podge proves only fitfully compelling.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Dec. 2025
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The orchestra seemed only fitfully engaged with Dudamel’s direction—a warning sign amid hoopla.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The vehicles inject extra danger and unpredictably into these encounters.—
Nick Miroff,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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According to Concord police, Joyce Richardson called 911 on New Year’s Eve and reported her son had knocked her and her husband over and was behaving unpredictably.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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That was a privilege to have that much time to process something, almost unconsciously but also consciously.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2026
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What art aims for consciously or unconsciously—that boundary between mystery and what can be known, between the hidden and what can be seen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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If a popular crypto investor with a sizable following predicts that the value of a coin is about to plummet, that can lead to many people selling off their shares in that coin, and inadvertently causing the very decline which was predicted.—
Malana VanTyler,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Jan. 2026
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Dellandrea was injured in the Sharks’ game on Tuesday against the Columbus Blue Jackets as his right leg struck the post after he was inadvertently tripped while driving to the net.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Teachers sent me home assuming that I was hit by a piece of stone accidentally from students playing nearby.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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For example, in 1928, Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin after examining the mold that had accidentally grown in one of his petri dishes.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Gutters and vents can also unintentionally guide mice inside.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
10 Jan. 2026
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Therapists have long seen how the human drive to avoid pain can unintentionally strengthen it.—
Dr. Jesse Finkelstein,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Bode will play Greta Mills, Ro’s smart, witty and ambitious research partner who unwittingly becomes entangled in the film’s violent conflict.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
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Well-meaning people who try to control another person’s grief may misunderstand that grief is a singular experience or may be unwittingly trying to assuage their own discomfort.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Disconnectedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disconnectedly. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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