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Recent Examples of unknowingly
Argentine officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the leading hypothesis is that the couple may have been exposed to rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city of Ushuaia, unknowingly contracting the virus before boarding the cruise ship.
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Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
This is extremely dangerous for officers and first responders to unknowingly interact with an individual with an active warrant.
—Silvana Tabares, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
Tung also offered advice for consumers seeking to avoid unknowingly supporting such practices.
—Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 3 May 2026
In fact, many passengers unknowingly make small mistakes in premium cabins that can affect both their own comfort and the overall flight experience.
—Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
Players who were born in the Netherlands and play club football in the country, but have declared for Indonesia, have, in theory, unknowingly not been allowed to fulfil work commitments without a work permit.
—Colin Millar, New York Times, 1 May 2026
That window is your most actionable lever and also the one most people unknowingly sabotage.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
As part of the program, test subjects were unknowingly given LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogen.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
And while intention matters, some behaviors can unknowingly leave soured edges around a visit that’s otherwise completely lovely.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
This is extremely dangerous for officers and first responders to unknowingly interact with an individual with an active warrant.
—Silvana Tabares, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
Tung also offered advice for consumers seeking to avoid unknowingly supporting such practices.
—Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 3 May 2026
In fact, many passengers unknowingly make small mistakes in premium cabins that can affect both their own comfort and the overall flight experience.
—Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
Players who were born in the Netherlands and play club football in the country, but have declared for Indonesia, have, in theory, unknowingly not been allowed to fulfil work commitments without a work permit.
—Colin Millar, New York Times, 1 May 2026
That window is your most actionable lever and also the one most people unknowingly sabotage.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
As part of the program, test subjects were unknowingly given LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful hallucinogen.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
And while intention matters, some behaviors can unknowingly leave soured edges around a visit that’s otherwise completely lovely.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowingly
Adverb
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At university, Karp focused his research on how people unconsciously transfer aggression through language.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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In presenting the Best Actor winners, Adrien Brody perfectly, if perhaps unconsciously, echoed Johnson’s remarks from more than 50 years earlier.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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In her latest Netflix action effort, Theron plays a woman who sets off on a trip to Australia to soothe her grief but unwittingly crosses paths with Egerton’s unnerving hunter, who forces her into a game of cat and mouse.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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The latter post was criticized by Ben Stiller for using footage from his 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, which follows a group of actors who are unwittingly dropped into a Southeast Asian war zone.—
Brooke Migdon,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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Davidson, 54, became the subject of numerous documentaries, and in 2019, made headlines for unintentionally swearing at Queen Elizabeth II while receiving an award for his advocacy work.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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Bubbles Didn’t Enter The Picture That Early In one of the moist unintentionally hilarious moments in the movie, Michael shocks his family by adopting a CGI baby chimpanzee named Bubbles sometime around 1979.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Unknowingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowingly. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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