Example Sentences

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One of the reasons it’s hard to accept fandom is because it’s not you — it’s your art, it’s the persona that’s been projected on you, a persona you’ve curated for yourself, wittingly or unwittingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"If they fail - wittingly or unwittingly - then the situation will remain in the 'managed rivalry' bucket," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Because, whether wittingly or not, science is singing the tune of the humanities.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on UEI, but said wittingly benefiting from forced labor in the United States was a crime under the U.S.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2021

In dream, to begin with, we have an environment, a surrounding scene which we have not wittingly invented, but which we find, as it were, awaiting our entry.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)