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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwisely
Adverb
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So, Blue Owl foolishly shut down that method of redemption.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
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Carradine plays Lewis as an outcast who’s completely aware of the way others perceive and reject him, yet chooses to be relentlessly, willfully, almost foolishly optimistic.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Fueling your body inadequately will leave you feeling dissatisfied and undernourished.—
Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
27 Feb. 2026
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Issues such as menopause and perimenopause, endometriosis and Alzheimer’s disease — conditions that exclusively or disproportionately affect women — remain inadequately studied.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Even though Cornyn is unpopular among some Republicans for being insufficiently MAGA, the president seems to recognize Paxton’s weakness in a general election—and, according to my colleagues Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, is planning to give his support to Cornyn, which could help the senator.—
Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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The rematch reflects growing frustration with Foushee among younger, left-leaning voters who view her as insufficiently confrontational, particularly on Israel and outside political spending, in one of the safest Democratic districts in the country.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Mar. 2026
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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 19 Mar. 2026.
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