1
as in accidental
happening by chance
an unwitting mistake made in copying the material
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2
as in unaware
not informed about or aware of something
an unwitting accomplice to the crime
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Recent Examples of unwitting
Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments.
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Joshua Rovner, The Conversation, 2 July 2025
Dinneen deemed it a work of filth that never should have passed the Chicago Board of Censors and been allowed to contaminate the locals, especially unwitting churchgoers.
—Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
That’s right, the FBI warns that bad actors have hijacked over a million of these devices with malware, turning them into unwitting participants in a global cybercrime network.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Everything converged on a young woman named Rose Walker (Kyo Ra), an unwitting Vortex—someone who can attract and manipulate dreams, with dire consequences.
—ArsTechnica, 17 June 2025
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Joshua Rovner, The Conversation, 2 July 2025
Dinneen deemed it a work of filth that never should have passed the Chicago Board of Censors and been allowed to contaminate the locals, especially unwitting churchgoers.
—Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
That’s right, the FBI warns that bad actors have hijacked over a million of these devices with malware, turning them into unwitting participants in a global cybercrime network.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025
Everything converged on a young woman named Rose Walker (Kyo Ra), an unwitting Vortex—someone who can attract and manipulate dreams, with dire consequences.
—ArsTechnica, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwitting
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An accidental entrepreneur Epic’s Deep Space Auditorium.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
16 Aug. 2025
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Finally, the rules have been tweaked for accidental ‘double-touch’ penalties.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Over one-third of American adults are unaware of HPV or the HPV vaccine, according to a new research letter published Thursday in the journal JAMA Oncology.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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Overall, one in three adults nationally are unaware of the connection between HPV and cancer, reveals a study from the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center in South Carolina.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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The homeowners, meanwhile, are locked in a separate case with Ocean over what Peck said was an inadvertent naming error in filing the 2017 assignment of rights.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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How Students Are Gaming The System Students have become inadvertent experts at understanding how language shapes AI responses.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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She’s been in the news a lot for tone-deaf or oblivious comments.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
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Note that the chart’s focus is exclusively on the trade in goods, oblivious to the global trade in services.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Joe is willfully ignorant—to national news and a lethal pandemic—but Aster didn’t write the character as a one-dimensional MAGA standee.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
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Yet Americans are surprisingly ignorant about our past.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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“Unwitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwitting. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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