as in involuntarily
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwillingly
reluctantly
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First, a state panel of pilot commissioners reluctantly cleared him of negligence.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025 -
The inevitability of what’s going to happen makes the sequence in the city square feel incredibly tense and harrowing, well before Dedra reluctantly gives the order for the Imperial sniper to open fire on the crowd.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
7 May 2025
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“Unwillingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwillingly. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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