as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
willfully chose to risk pneumonia by jumping into a freezing lake on a dare
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Adverb
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This flexibility in the rules was created intentionally, according to the 75 Hard website.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
9 July 2025 -
And with Williams’s departure, the bridge between product innovation and executive leadership has been intentionally dismantled.—
Nate Bennett,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adverb
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The narrative is deliberately overwrought and overwritten.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Officials said Roley deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain, near Coeur d’Alene to lure first responders into a deadly trap, according to the Associated Press.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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“Willfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/willfully. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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