wittingly or unwittingly
idiom
: knowingly or unknowingly
Wittingly or unwittingly, she hurt my feelings again.
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Taken together, all this means that therapists could wittingly or unwittingly feed their own thoughts or desires to a patient, then pass them off as the patient’s true wishes.
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 June 2024
In this sense, Ukraine is a challenge to those in the West who have forgotten the ethical basis of democracy and thereby, wittingly or unwittingly, ceded the field to oligarchy and empire at home and abroad.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
The Danchenko indictment, however, challenges the idea that Millian fed information to Steele’s project, wittingly or unwittingly.
—Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
There is a notion—and Hawking encouraged this, wittingly or unwittingly—that scientific theories and discoveries emerge full-grown like Athena from the head of Zeus; that scientists need their bodies only to communicate their work after the fact.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
According to the Senate report, the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation was opened on July 31, 2016 with the broad intent of determining whether any individuals associated with the Trump campaign had either wittingly or unwittingly coordinated with the Russian government.
—CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
The battle between Warren Mayor Jim Fouts and the City Council has escalated after the council either wittingly or unwittingly cut the position of the mayor's longtime assistant from the new budget.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2020
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 June 2024
In this sense, Ukraine is a challenge to those in the West who have forgotten the ethical basis of democracy and thereby, wittingly or unwittingly, ceded the field to oligarchy and empire at home and abroad.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
The Danchenko indictment, however, challenges the idea that Millian fed information to Steele’s project, wittingly or unwittingly.
—Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
There is a notion—and Hawking encouraged this, wittingly or unwittingly—that scientific theories and discoveries emerge full-grown like Athena from the head of Zeus; that scientists need their bodies only to communicate their work after the fact.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
According to the Senate report, the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation was opened on July 31, 2016 with the broad intent of determining whether any individuals associated with the Trump campaign had either wittingly or unwittingly coordinated with the Russian government.
—CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
The battle between Warren Mayor Jim Fouts and the City Council has escalated after the council either wittingly or unwittingly cut the position of the mayor's longtime assistant from the new budget.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2020
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