as in involuntarily
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Recent Examples of unwillingly
Remember that the members of the military and the National Guard who will be asked to walk these streets are, for the most part, here unwillingly.
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USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Jake never did learn that Anna and Tess unwillingly switched bodies overnight.
—Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Jake never did learn that Anna and Tess unwillingly switched bodies overnight.
—Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwillingly
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Besides motion sickness, some workers lose control under VR helmets, either losing hearing outside sounds coming from within the helmet or extending arms involuntarily.—
Jackie Charniga,
Freep.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Options for intervention range from monitoring the person or hardening a target like a school, Amman said, or, in more extreme cases, invoking red flag laws or involuntarily committing someone.—
Ian Berry,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Communicating a clear and unified message to voters, however, might require different elements of the Party to support, even if reluctantly, a set of popular candidates.—
Erin Neil,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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In need of a new assistant after his last one died under mysterious circumstances, Giacomo reluctantly becomes the sorcerer’s apprentice.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Unwillingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwillingly. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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