deliberate
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Handre Pollard gave the Bulls a penalty lead but was then sin-binned for a deliberate knock-on.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
“It is clear to me that his approach was deliberate, calculated and aggressive, which is deeply alarming,” Carpenter wrote in the request.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
“I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting,” Alfonsi told the New York Times of her firing.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
He recognized that his Readymades—neither pictures nor sculptures nor merely found objects—demanded deliberate staging to differentiate themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
I reached to brush it off the table, and she stopped me with her nose, looked pointedly at the cactus, and gave a deliberate negative shake of her head, then looked up at me.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing deliberate
The Crucible
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