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unwitting

[uhn-wit-ing] / ʌnˈwɪt ɪŋ /


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Unwitting people are forking over money via gift cards, cryptocurrency, credit cards, cash and wire transfers.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2024

Unwitting encounters are especially frequent with black bears and sloth bears in South Asia, whereas deliberate attacks by hungry bears are uncommon.

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2023

Unwitting American bombers attacked and sank the boat near Subic Bay; my grandfather swam to shore with a wounded prisoner in tow, then returned twice to the wreckage to rescue others, including his captors.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

Unwitting agents of the Columbian exchange, husbands planted English crops like wheat, rye, oats, and peas, as well as Indian corn and pumpkins, and carefully tended horses, cows, and pigs.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

A hundred hearts beat placidly on, Unwitting they that their warder's gone; A hundred lips are babbling blithe, Some seconds hence they in pain may writhe.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 by Various




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