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Recent Examples of unwisely
For the visitors’ winner, Anthony Gordon unwisely attempted to dribble inside his own half and carelessly lost possession.
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Chris Waugh, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Advertisement Tom unwisely selects a female Jimmy nicknamed Jimmima (Emma Laird) as his opponent and is promptly and methodically disarmed as painfully as possible.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
Campus protesters in the United States unwisely adopted slogans that were open to misinterpretation.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
Dank, drippy corridors and tunnels are unwisely and always creepily traversed.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2025
Chris Waugh, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Advertisement Tom unwisely selects a female Jimmy nicknamed Jimmima (Emma Laird) as his opponent and is promptly and methodically disarmed as painfully as possible.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
Campus protesters in the United States unwisely adopted slogans that were open to misinterpretation.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
Dank, drippy corridors and tunnels are unwisely and always creepily traversed.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwisely
Adverb
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Hurley, being Hurley, had to take a dig at folks for suggesting that perhaps his streak would be broken here, who – just as foolishly as leaving out a sticker in the UConn locker room – thought perhaps the Huskies might lose.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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The think tank proposals of this R&D tax would foolishly jeopardize this activity.—
Tomas J. Philipson,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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It should be noted that a tree or any other plant, for that matter, does not stand much of a chance in the long term where the soil drains inadequately.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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Juries in the two trials determined that Meta inadequately policed its site, putting kids in harm’s way.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Along similar lines, January 6 defendants and their advocates, who perceive Dhillon as insufficiently supportive of their cause, have voiced anger over her potential promotion.—
Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
13 Apr. 2026
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The crowd at an event for James Fishback, a Florida gubernatorial candidate, who, like many other young conservatives, considers MAGA insufficiently radical.—
Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Both of these species are large aquatic rodents that influence ecosystems – beaver dam building changes how water moves, sometimes undesirably for land owners, while nutria are non-native and damaging to wetlands.—
Alex Jensen,
The Conversation,
18 Dec. 2025
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While some liners deliver an undesirably smudge-effect, Victoria Beckham Beauty perfectly plumps.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Unwisely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwisely. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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