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unwittingly

[uhn-wit-ing-lee]

adverb

  1. without meaning to; unintentionally.

    Users who visit infected websites could unwittingly download malware that steals information in their computers.

  2. through ignorance; through lack of knowledge or awareness.

    A number of women have been unwittingly lured into this scheme by being told they were working on a very important project.



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But this time he unwittingly provided priceless attention for an adversary.

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The idea that AI adoption could unwittingly recast any single piece of punctuation as a literal mark of fraudulence seems like an unbearable irony.

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But, unwittingly, they were being blown by a northerly wind towards a rip current, a permanent fixture beside the lido at the southern end of the mile-long beach.

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Repetition compulsions within the Democratic Party, including among self-described liberals and progressives, unwittingly smoothed the path for Donald Trump’s return to power.

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The special prosecutor also argued that Gutierrez had unwittingly brought the live bullets with her to the popular western film location, Bonanza Creek Ranch, and mingled them with inert “dummy” bullets used on film sets.

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