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Recent Examples of unwary Employment data bristle with pitfalls for the unwary, even among experienced economists such as Ohanian. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for unwary
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Adjective
  • Even Portugal, who have been naive defensively but have considerable pace in attack, could threaten in transition, and Italy will need to shore up that element of their game to avoid being caught out.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • So, the whole thing just seems naive from people who’ve been oppressed by this murderous regime for 46 years.
    Fiction Non Fiction July 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • People with diabetes have trouble regulating blood sugar and may be more susceptible to orange juice raising blood sugar, which is why they are often counseled to avoid orange juice.11 However, studies on this subject are contradictory.
    Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 22 July 2025
  • Microgravity, radiation, confinement and a change in sleep-wake cycles and can exert pressure on cells, driving lower immune systems and making astronauts more susceptible to being sick during or after missions.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • But the alternative is much worse: a world where the loss of innocent life is treated as inescapable, where no calamity can be prevented or bad situation reformed.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
  • Comprehensive cell phone analysis can be just as powerful in clearing innocent drivers by proving no user interaction occurred.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • In July, the city construction board declared the house an unsafe structure and gave the owners five days to fix the situation.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025
  • Playing in unsafe heat can cause immense stress to the body.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • However, some will still find this airport to be easier, given the unmatched flight availability to and from Cancún.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2025
  • Designing two spaces to enjoy for years would have been much easier if the Ezra collection had existed from the Better Homes & Gardens line at Walmart.
    Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Jumbotron is a routine bit at Coldplay shows, with the camera scanning the crowd and landing on unsuspecting show attendees.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 July 2025
  • In fact, the idea for the project began to take shape after Bad Shabbos producer Adam Mitchell heard about Weiner’s mother playing a harmless prank on an unsuspecting dinner guest.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
  • He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025

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“Unwary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwary. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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