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That’s an understandable impulse—especially since Elon Musk has restored the accounts of scurrilous wrongdoers who’d previously broken Twitter rules, while other social media giants, like Facebook and Instagram, are ill-advisedly relaxing their content-moderation standards.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2024

The earth recovers, as does the moon; and the lizard comes back as a man who in time also ill-advisedly eats the moon.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022

The Dodgers blew a one-run lead in the fifth when Roberts ill-advisedly brought in pitcher Ryan Madsen.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2020

Right now, perhaps ill-advisedly, I’m rereading William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” feeling quite glad to be sequestered in my self-distancing abode and not on some remote island with a bunch of primal schoolkids.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2020

I’d ill-advisedly bought new white sneakers to wear on the trip, and within a day, after all the pushing we did, they’d turned reddish brown, stained with the cinnamon-hued dust of Nairobi.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama