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
The unwitting consumers are generally parents, given the price point – $1,500 to $3,000 – Moore said.
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Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.
—Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
That scheme involved operatives impersonating recruiters and executive search consultants on LinkedIn and Telegram and then sending unwitting job-seeking targets standard technical coding tests laced with malware.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Access to the roof will be granted to visitors, to peer out from the place where the Beatles played a surprise show to an unwitting audience of Swinging London citizenry until police pulled the plug.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
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Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.
—Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
That scheme involved operatives impersonating recruiters and executive search consultants on LinkedIn and Telegram and then sending unwitting job-seeking targets standard technical coding tests laced with malware.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Access to the roof will be granted to visitors, to peer out from the place where the Beatles played a surprise show to an unwitting audience of Swinging London citizenry until police pulled the plug.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwitting
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The New York Times later confirmed that reporting through more anonymous US officials, including one official who said US military investigators were still evaluating whether the Iranian drone strike on the helicopter was intentional or accidental.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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The search warrant obtained by ABC News shows that federal agents were instructed to look for anything that would indicate violations of a law to prevent the accidental release of extremely hazardous substances into the air.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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Australian Transport Safety Bureau The pilot, unaware of what had happened, felt the aircraft suddenly pitch up, and noticed the airspeed rapidly decreasing.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
12 Dec. 2025
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In this case, hospital staff who treated the Idaho man were initially unaware of the skunk scratch and attributed his symptoms to chronic comorbidities.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Dec. 2025
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However, after Monday's inadvertent alarm, the office is looking at that policy.—
Sarah Horbacewicz,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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That’s where the irony of the show’s premise ends up sounding like an inadvertent confession.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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The average grocery-store mandarin orange—the kind that lived, oblivious and happy, in fruit bowls across the United States until relatively recently; the kind that doesn’t have a robust online fandom—falls somewhere from 8 to 11 degrees Brix.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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Trump is absolutely oblivious at times to what would obviously serve his best interest.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 June 2026
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Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they were also marred by ignorant, homophobic heckling.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
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And using both words does not reveal that a person is ignorant but rather cosmopolitan.—
Kirk Bowman,
The Conversation,
4 June 2026
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“Unwitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwitting. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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