advertent

Example Sentences

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Federal prison authorities, he said, “would have very, very substantial concerns about that because of the risk of either advertent or inadvertent disruption of the IV lines.”

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021

The narratives that Americans need may be somewhat more advertent, and morally organized.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps what Nicholson reveals as the root of the scene is also, in an in advertent Irony, what was wrong with it.

From Time Magazine Archive

An advertent and sustained foreign policy uses a different part of the brain from the one engaged by horrifying images.

From Time Magazine Archive

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah