disjointedly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disjointedly
Adverb
  • Mating season is February to April, and females will lay one or two eggs per day intermittently during that period.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For some, the pause is only temporary because their Starlink dish is used intermittently for RV or camping trips.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Outside the Jeoffry section, the poem celebrates goats, wine, the King of Sardinia, the Postmaster General, and on and unpredictably on, compiling one of the more eccentric inventories of creation.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The pilots demonstrate CyRo’s capability in scenarios, highlighting its advantages, such as assembly on moving platforms where parts arrive unpredictably, handling transparent and reflective components, and adapting to new geometries without reprogramming.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • When someone is known primarily for reliability, colleagues unconsciously pigeonhole them.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The microcosm of this family unit in its death throes is all there right on the court, from Bernard’s toxic competitiveness to the way Walt unconsciously picks up on his dad’s cues and then lords his victory over his little brother (Owen Kline).
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Video from the incident, however, shows that the confrontation may have been sparked by Prescott himself, who seemingly — though possibly unintentionally — spit in Carter’s direction during the opening huddle.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This approach would unintentionally damage American businesses.
    Kristen Edgreen Kaufman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Over the course of the season, Dexter reunites with Harrison in New York City and inadvertently finds his way into the company of other infamous serial killers secretly assembled for meetings at the estate of billionaire philanthropist Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage).
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But now the President is dead, Kate’s husband Hal (Sewell) may have inadvertently killed him, and Grace Penn is leader of the free world.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Pike has unwittingly helped Marie.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Ustinov hired him, though, as Stamp had unwittingly replicated Billy Budd’s gormless behavior.
    Rhett Bartlett, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Fentanyl is dangerous for many reasons, one of which is that it is often laced inside other drugs, with many recreational drug users accidentally consuming the other substances without knowing there's any fentanyl inside them.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • If a player scores a penalty kick but accidentally touches the ball twice, they will be allowed to retake it.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This journey for self-acceptance fortuitously leads to mentorship from the local drag community, showing Adolfo the importance of having the right people in your corner even outside of the ring.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That depth is fortuitously within reach of the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover, which is set to launch to the Red Planet no earlier than 2028 and will carry a drill that can penetrate up to two meters below the planet’s surface.
    Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2025
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“Disjointedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disjointedly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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