as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
cannot convict unless the defendant knowingly committed perjury
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Recent Examples of knowingly
Cooper is expected to be in court on Wednesday to be advised of the charge of second-degree assault- strangulation, as well as Cooper, 28, third-degree assault- knowingly or recklessly causing injury, a misdemeanor.
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Alan Gionet, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Examples range from businesses like Enron, Tyco, and Bernie Madoff, along with historical tyrants like Stalin or Hitler to modern figures like Putin, and industries like tobacco that knowingly harm users for profit.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI earlier this month, alleging that the company knowingly released an unsafe product, namely ChatGPT, that could harm users.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 June 2026
The group that knowingly drank decaf also improved, though less dramatically.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026
According to a charging document filed by the Harris County District Attorney's Office and obtained by PEOPLE, Harden, 36, was knowingly carrying a handgun outside of a holster in plain view inside his vehicle.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
This lawsuit, like numerous other similar cases that have come before it, alleges a design defect with ChatGPT itself and blames OpenAI for knowingly deploying a dangerous product.
—Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
But the group that knowingly drank decaf also experienced significant relief, while the water group saw essentially no change.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
But while these entities are confusing at first, Spielberg is knowingly playing with his past imagery.
—Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
Alan Gionet, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Examples range from businesses like Enron, Tyco, and Bernie Madoff, along with historical tyrants like Stalin or Hitler to modern figures like Putin, and industries like tobacco that knowingly harm users for profit.
—Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI earlier this month, alleging that the company knowingly released an unsafe product, namely ChatGPT, that could harm users.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 June 2026
The group that knowingly drank decaf also improved, though less dramatically.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026
According to a charging document filed by the Harris County District Attorney's Office and obtained by PEOPLE, Harden, 36, was knowingly carrying a handgun outside of a holster in plain view inside his vehicle.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
This lawsuit, like numerous other similar cases that have come before it, alleges a design defect with ChatGPT itself and blames OpenAI for knowingly deploying a dangerous product.
—Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
But the group that knowingly drank decaf also experienced significant relief, while the water group saw essentially no change.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
But while these entities are confusing at first, Spielberg is knowingly playing with his past imagery.
—Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowingly
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
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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
Cite this Entry
“Knowingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowingly. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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