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Recent Examples of unwary The result is that fraudsters have rushed into cryptocurrency, exploiting the complexity and hype to dupe the unwary. Hilary Allen, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2023 These are unexplainable phenomena scattered throughout the game’s world that can kill an unwary player in an instant. Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024 Some of these bad actors are even setting up fake Hugging Face profiles to pose as Meta or other technology companies to lure downloads from the unwary, according to Swanson. Iain Martin, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 To joke about faking the moon landing while faking romance is a twisted attempt at keeping us gullible and unwary. Armond White, National Review, 17 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for unwary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwary
Adjective
  • Don’t be naive and offer $500 for a premium domain name.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • But that naive, first-generation Polish-American girl soon became a force to be reckoned with.
    Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Although Hill initially received two tickets for careless driving and not wearing a seat belt, they were dismissed after the officer who cited him didn’t show up to the Miami-Dade traffic hearing.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
  • Of those fires, 90% were caused by careless human activity, the agency said.
    Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • What's more, the researchers found that the mice on the WD plan were also more susceptible to Salmonella infections.
    Michael Franco May 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
  • This depends on the material, but faux leather is usually less susceptible to damage from steam.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • These rapid deportations mean some innocent people are being denied the chance to clear their name in a U.S. courtroom.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • Seeing innocent people arrested for exercising their civil rights, sparked his desire to pursue a career in law.
    J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • When something hurts or feels unsafe, your body tenses up to protect you (also known as muscle guarding).
    Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025
  • Feeling unsafe is debilitating, squashes our creativity, is discouraging and makes dealing with uncertainty so much more difficult.
    Sanjeev Menon, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Now Winston begins running errands in a pickup truck that can be customised with gadgets like a winch and a crane to make tasks easier.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The left and right sides of the TV have deep grooves running down their lengths for the side-firing speaker drives (and, on the left, a USB-C port with support for DisplayPort for easy device connection), while the flat top panel features grilles for the upward-firing drivers.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Image The local-first approach can raise eyebrows for unsuspecting shoppers.
    Alexandra Talty, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Their third quarter was a masterpiece — the kind of frame the Warriors used to put on unsuspecting, lesser teams.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Youngest brother Dante is reckless and indebted to dangerous criminals.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • On Sunday, officers arrested the suspect in South San Francisco and booked him into San Mateo County jail on charges of hit-and-run causing injury and reckless evading.
    Jason Green, Mercury News, 14 May 2025

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“Unwary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwary. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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