deliberate
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“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
"We do not approach this challenge with needless confrontation but with the posture of measured and deliberate strength."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
“We are very conscious and deliberate about it.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
“Provisions that enable the deliberate engineering of vulnerabilities into critical infrastructure like Signal are a grave threat to privacy everywhere,” said Udbhav Tiwari, vice-president for strategy and global affairs at the messaging service.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
“And that,” said I, “is your deliberate opinion, Mr. Wemmick?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing deliberate
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