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consciously

[kon-shuhs-lee] / ˈkɒn ʃəs li /


ADVERB
knowingly
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Colas wrote that “structurally higher energy valuations are at least partly due to investors consciously choosing a sector with historically strong capital discipline.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

These were actions very consciously taken with the eyes of history upon him.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

Maybe Yuna Hollander didn’t consciously think, Let me deploy culinary therapy in this moment of crisis.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

This show looks at photographs of Gardner—both consciously staged and candid, and drawn from all periods of her life—to try to create a fuller picture of the woman and her intellect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

If you had told Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach or Josef Haydn they were working in a consciously ‘classical’ style inspired by the period 800 bc-ad 100 they would have been baffled by the comparison.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall