How To Use Witting In A Sentence
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The war in which little David Gorey had become unwittingly involved was of a different character, undeclared and unrecognized.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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The movement's admiration of non-European art unwittingly offered artists from minority cultures the opportunity to value their own visual traditions.
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None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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Parents can unwittingly transmit their own fears to their children.
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Louise's logic suggests that, had Nolan managed to steer Ranger's nod down the right side of the post minutes before Coloccini's unwitting own goal let's be honest, that *would* have been undeserved, which is just absurd.
The Guardian World News
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Although our news media are very remiss in educating the public on the great economic tragedy now unfolding, they do unwittingly disclose some frightening facts.
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These were all blameless cases of unintentional and unwitting mental telegraphy, I judge.
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They're innocent victims who've unwittingly exposed themselves, whew, sorted.
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BT told her she must have unwittingly downloaded an automatic dialler onto her computer as she surfed the net.
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You might be an unwitting binge drinker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Photographers across Britain have become the unwitting victims of misplaced fears about anyone carrying a camera in public.
Times, Sunday Times
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And what better way to incite people than by a continuous stinging of their pride and resentment, by taunting or “twitting” them? sdg Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Doing It With Twitter
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He unwittingly communicated the virus to fellow guests in the lift or lobby of the hotel where he stayed before going to hospital.
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From all appearances, it seems that Fast-a-thon is an attempt at crypto-dawah — getting people involved in Islamic practices unwittingly, and perhaps only after the fact letting them know that they have participated in a Muslim religious ritual.
The non-kinetic 5GW jihad against the US continues « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
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As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents.
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In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
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Able, Baker, and Ham all received multipage spreads in Life magazine as America's unwitting pioneers.
His 'Astrochimp' Proved Space Was Safe
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Now coming up with tenuous rationales for persuading unwitting students to choose your major is hardly unique to any field of study.
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Photographers across Britain have become the unwitting victims of misplaced fears about anyone carrying a camera in public.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why should anyone, child or adult, in unwitting dishabille be used as a spectacle?
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(no absolute rule about it, however,) sometimes suddenly bursting forth, or stealthily opening to me, perhaps after years of unwitting familiarity, unappreciation, usage.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
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People hate those who unwittingly harm the cause of peace.
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In the end, the tale of an elfin waitress who spreads happiness among her unwitting friends and neighbours grossed £90m.
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Vandals are unwittingly causing untold damage to wildlife habitat in Savernake Forest, says a forester.
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She unwittingly attracts the attention of three potential suitors.
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But he has unwittingly made plain what only a few radicals and Marxists have hitherto suspected.
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It is, of course, deliberately provocative and designed to tempt an unwitting Unionite into criticising his choice of closure before blinding him with the weight and depth of his erudition.
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But what could other less reputable concerns do with such data captured inadvertently from unwitting Web sites?
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All they'd have to do is plant explosives in the baggage of unwitting travellers, then let the dogs sniff the explosives out.
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Camberwick Green, probably unwittingly, supplied me with a conservative counter agenda to the counter-culture.
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The report, the product of a two-year investigation, paints the firm as Exhibit A of Wall Street's evolution from a place that raises and deploys capital to worthy businesses into a vulturous creature that preys on unwitting investors.
Goldman Sachs Ripped Off And Misled Clients, Senate Report Says
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Either way, evil lurked within to snare the unwitting and unwatchful until brave souls rose up to cleanse it.
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The Wandsworth resident was outraged when he found parking tickets were being slapped on unwitting motorists who were actually obeying the restrictions in his street.
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It is Meredith who unwittingly brings Tom Ripley crashing to earth when it seems that he has eluded danger and gotten away without punishment for his dark deeds.
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In doing so, they unwittingly adopt the language of participants in such struggles, and contribute to the reification of ethnic groups.
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He was unwittingly caught up in the confrontation.
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By facilitating finding information frompreviously unknown sources, employees gain enriched access to diverse perspectives, fostering innovation and reducing the likelihood of people unwittingly working on redundant efforts.
2007 December « TalentedApps
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Lemony Snicket: These tales of the Baudelaire orphans outwitting multiple death threats and a gaggle of guileful guardians, with meta-commentary by an unnamed author are ... well they're definitely not intended as an ingenious snare for the use of pedophiles, I'll tell you that.
Jilly Gagnon: The Moral of the Story Is...
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Have you been misreading the signs all along or unwittingly offended her in some way that meant you didn't make the cut?
Times, Sunday Times
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Can Misha Glenny be so politically naive that he has unwittingly turned into an apologist for aggression?
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Just as infuriating is the witting acceptance among the leadership class.
The Most Annoying Business Jargon
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his rudeness was unwitting
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The commission's fact-finding, moreover, should be dispassionate; it should not be freighted with agendas that create incentives - wittingly or not - to maximize or minimize some contributory factors at the expense of others.
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More surprising, at least to those who presumed her well-aired feminist principles to have been a continual corrective to Blair's masonic/lubricious tendencies, Cherie Blair appears to have been equally impressed by displays of New Labour virility, twitting her husband on the contrast with his own probable timidity: "John's just a man.
What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?
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And so it proves, when he, the informant and the smugglers unwittingly walk straight into a police ambush.
The Sun
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Which means that by clicking ‘next’ when confronted with the first four unchecked boxes, the user unwittingly elects to receive sports, entertainment, music and new service announcements.
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The records of Massachusetts Bay are full of suggestive incongruities between the ideal, single-souled life which its founders hoped to lead, and the jealousies, the opposing opinions, or the intervolved passions of individuals and of parties, which sometimes unwittingly cloaked themselves in religious tenets.
A Study Of Hawthorne
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I was certainly not the first to be pranked this way - there are a slew of cases of angry pharmacists, disgruntled neighbors, and scorned ex-boyfriends using sites like Craigslist to recruit unwitting accomplices in their acts of revenge - I coined the term "crowdsourcing revenge" to describe the practice.
Forbes.com: News
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The best guess for what might be happening is that patients unwittingly trigger the transient global amnesia by raising the pressure inside their abdomens.
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A sophisticated person need not behave like a madari and, wittingly or unwittingly, distort his public image in today's highly unethical and competitive politics.
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We have to approach this challenge conscious of the fact that we do not unwittingly promote the interests of those whose aim has always been to balkanise the country along ethnic and racial lines.
POLITICAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, TO THE 49TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA
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And so it proves, when he, the informant and the smugglers unwittingly walk straight into a police ambush.
The Sun
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The two women claimed they were the unwitting victims of a drugs dealer who planted a large quantity of heroin in their luggage.
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However, in obliquely making this point Mr. Klein unwittingly points to a flaw in the measurement of administrative efficiency.
More Stupid Administrative Efficiency Arguments
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I may have unwittingly provided them with a reason why my application should be filed in the trash can.
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Let's not forget: this is a man who makes a living as the funniest PC liberal ever to sit in front of a piano, and no such person likes to be told that he is an unwitting transphobe.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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I regret any anxiety or concern which I may, unwittingly, have caused.
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Arthur Kirkland says: rachel: Wonder what of interest might be found on the ships, besides witting fools?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
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Now and then a few people, witting or unwitting postmodernists, who think that social constructs trump the laws of physics, are mowed down by logging trucks.
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We're unwitting victims of the system.
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In this instance (Spammer re-posts captcha on porn site in near real time, unwitting user enters it, transmits back to the actual site) the only thing automated is the process of scraping the captcha, posting it, and transmitting the answer.
Breaking Google Captchas for Some Extra Cash - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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You might be an unwitting binge drinker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any celebration of Stravinsky must include dance, and Mark Morris, whose choreographic work for a previous festival, "Mozart Dances," miraculously captured every musical shape and impulse in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11, is now offering Stravinsky's "Renard," a small theater piece based on a Russian tale about farmyard animals outwitting a prowling fox.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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Did they unwittingly do the worst possible thing in response, thus altering a fragile balance for ever?
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The deception campaign that exploited the émigrés' lack of credibility was unwittingly backstopped by correspondence between Cubans and their friends and relatives in the United States.
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It was all right to gossip about them in the dark in a quiet bar or in an office between witting officers.
BLACK EAGLES
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Wittingly or not, Marlin touched on another of those garage whispers: Atwood somehow is uncommitted to the sport and his career.
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Illustrating Ortega's remark, we call unwitting or in - nocent Platonists all those — from German romanticism to recent popular poetry — who speak of “soul brother or sister,” “the fusion of souls” in “the ecstasy of love” in which lovers believe they are “joined as One,” and those who describe themselves as being loved by their
LOVE
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New floors are being laid and the pre-press area will be separated with isolating walls but all the careful instructions, labels and painted floor lines restricting movement are in place to prevent an unwitting disaster.
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He's an unwitting folklorist, a collector and expounder of hipster philosophy, barroom trivia, and pseudoscience.
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The facts, as presented, suggest that the appellant was the unwitting user of counterfeit currency.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jurisdiction v. Justiciability:
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Mr. Bookbinder had unwittingly "unchecked" the spam filter in the MS Mind control panel.
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During the Bush years, the designation encompassed not just members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban but also anyone who associated with them, supported them, or supported organizations associated with them, even if unwittingly.
Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
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A woman who suffered a 48-hour kidnap ordeal may have been the unwitting victim of an underworld drug debt row sparked by a string of recent seizures.
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Stan sees this as time well spent of course, but with each mistaken stab, hundreds of blank or malformed emails are sent to unwitting recipients.
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There are two ways that anglers often draw unwitting attention to themselves and so lessen their chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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They trace the word to the piratical practice of flying a flag or ensign other than one's own in order to deceive a passing ship or unwitting harbormaster about a vessel's true identity.
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If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly.
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... "unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who studies angels, and a race of monster-like descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim"; she then teams up with an angelologist "in a search for ancient artifacts that are the only things that can stop the Nephilim.
ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
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Prison guards are unwittingly passing on coded information in what appear to be innocent messages from criminals to their relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
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Both films feature a friend who helps eliminate the protagonist's problems via murder, and, in the process, gains the witting or unwitting complicity of the hero.
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Why should anyone, child or adult, in unwitting dishabille be used as a spectacle?
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Needles spent from heroin injection litter the streets, left to the unwitting hands of preadolescent children; burned-out teenagers lurk in projects.
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His grandstanding has increased suspicions that England have become unwitting accomplices to the ego trip of an eccentric billionaire.
Times, Sunday Times
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If women are targets or "pie" or "gullet" -- this writer is a wad of wankery, tacky ejaculate, unwittingly revealing what makes him screech and wee wee.
Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman"
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I would not wittingly have intruded my poor presence upon such a gallant company.
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Traveling back in time 4,000 years, it plunges unwitting riders into a harrowing journey through ancient Egypt and a confrontation with an animatronic version of the mummy Imhotep, notorious Keeper of the Dead.
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‘If he has,’ said I, ‘he has done it unwittingly; I never heard before that he was a favourer of the popish delusion.’
Lavengro
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PersonFromPorlock: I remember, fifty years ago, twitting my communist roommate that he was against company towns and for company countries.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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My remarks about divorce had unwittingly touched a raw nerve.
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Borckman was twittingly asked how many drinks he had taken, and if that was what accounted for his shooting being under his average.
Jerry of the Islands
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he unwittingly deleted the references
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She was the unwitting tool of the swindlers.
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A convict has escaped, unwittingly aided by young Julian's artless chatter, and John must be on hand to deal with the situation.
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We want witting, not unwitting, understanding.
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_A Prospect of Society_ before it became evident to me (1) that the lines were not "unarranged," but disarranged; and (2) that whatever the reason of this disarray, Goldsmith's brain was not responsible; that the disorder was too insane to be accepted either as an order in which he could have written the poem, or as one in which he could have wittingly allowed it to circulate among his friends, unless he desired them to believe him mad.
From a Cornish Window A New Edition
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May be by twitting she can avoid that hasty talk on television!
Palin set to let the tweets 'fly'
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Hope this time it goes through. 90% of 10% active twitting is just from bloggers who tweet for every new blog or from spammers.
Ironic But True — Many On Twitter Are Just Silent
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These three events together, the Unwitting Thief, the Summers parody, and the Gore parody, point to a peculiar vacuum of confidence in the middle years of the last decade -- they also happen to be the time McEwan wrote Saturday, and it is not too much to claim that the fatal flaw in that book was a certain pompousness toward Western righteousness.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment
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I've unblocked myself so you we can do 'twitting'.
All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
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The top bankers and their top legal firms are all part of a very deliberate and witting money laundering apparatus.
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Gardaí are investigating these unusual crimes, which target unwitting visitors to graveyards who leave their valuables in the cars.
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By accepting everyone's (well, almost everyone's) invitations, he makes other people the unwitting authors of his destiny.
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So when she couldn't get up the tree, she unwittingly wished for more help, and her body responded by growing a tail.
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Any good agency would have sufficient checks in place to ensure they don't place, either wittingly or unwittingly, someone not qualified to do the job.
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He, they believe, was carefully positioned by network executives as an unwitting victim of sloppy reporting by a subordinate.
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Guess Cantor was too busy twitting away so don't ask him what the President said.
Obama invokes Kennedy's 'character of America'
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Virginia's book was liberating for me, because its alternate taxonomy helped me avoid unwittingly imposing artificial political identities on my own thinking.
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It was then he was unwittingly drawn into one of the industry's most famous frauds, though he was entirely innocent.
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Mentalizing is pervasive in everyday life, in communication and co-operation, in pedagogy, in play-acting, but also in deceiving, cheating, and outwitting.
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By deciding to opt for the tax and spend route and gambling all on saving the NHS in a largely unreformed state Brown may, unwittingly, be doing his critics a favour and his followers a disservice.
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One thing though, I'd never before so personally perceived nature's absolute mastery at using the unwitting collaboration of its sapient members to mimic its fungal elements.
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No matter how much trouble he may unwittingly cause, the court doesn't have the heart to convict him.
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He had to use a pseudonym to continue to write, and continue to write he did, for years, while William Shakespeare, whose name is used, went unwittingly on, grubbing for money in Stratford.
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Few observers, however, even in the Tsardom, gaged the strength or foresaw the effects of the anarchist propaganda which was being carried on suasively and perseveringly, oftentimes unwittingly, in the nursery, the school, the church, the university, and with eminent success in the army and the navy.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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He went for help, using his stairlift to go downstairs, and unwittingly called on the help of the thief's two accomplices.
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But the slightly futile gesture of outwitting corporate no-marks is more than offset by the final scene.
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BT told her she must have unwittingly downloaded an automatic dialler onto her computer as she surfed the net.
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Why so many climbers unwittingly created so much visual pollution?
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Yet the strongest melodramas are those without apparent villains, where characters end up hurting each other unwittingly, just by pursing their desires.
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Wittingham, a tall, Jamaican-born man with a heartbreaker's good looks and what appears to be a genuinely sincere demeanor, has even brought his own 10-year-old daughter to the event.
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Insist on a contract in witting that specifies the nature of the service to be provided.
Aggie R. Hoffman: Protection for Victims of Ineffective Representation and Immigration Fraud
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Through him it is natural to suppose that his wife would be brought in, and that this believing couple, now "heirs together of the grace of life" (1Pe 3: 7), as they told their two sons, Alexander and Rufus, what honor had unwittingly been put upon their father at that hour of deepest and dearest moment to all Christians, might be blessed to the inbringing of both of them to Christ.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The writers of stories and novelettes in 1999 wittingly or unwittingly make an artistic presentation of this theme.
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On the one hand there are those who argue, quite plausibly, that legal and apparently innocent products can introduce nandrolone into the bodies of unwitting athletes.
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Motorists could be unwittingly making their car insurance policies invalid and driving illegally because their photocard driving licence has expired.
Archive 2008-09-01
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In many cases, patients will not be asked for consent for their data to be shared, because it will be "anonymised", a process which deletes certain information with the aim of making individuals unidentifiable. letter to the British Medical Journal, Dr Ian Brown of the Oxford Internet Institute said that NHS rules mean such unwitting participants in research can be "trivially" re-identified.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Instead of unwittingly getting inside information, Schwarz ran into the latest version of the classic "pump-and-dump" investment scam sweeping the nation.
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For instance, aristolochia, which destroyed Sandra’s and Patricia’s lives, is still being sold to unwitting British patients, despite being legally banned.
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Sleek in black leotards that emphasized line and showed musculature, Burkholder and Witting tangoed at times in graceful tandem while positioned one slightly above the other.
Arachne Aerial Arts combines dance with aerial acrobatics
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Drake exchanged hundreds of e-mails with the reporter using a secure mail service, passed along information he received from "unwitting" NSA employees and used his access to classified computer networks to obtain information for the reporter, the indictment states.
Spy agency worker accused of leaking documents to reporter
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For centuries, though, Catholics, however unscholarly, have had an unwitting advantage over many Shakespearean critics.
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Indian photographers of my generation have wittingly or unwittingly been influenced by a distinctly Western view of India.
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The three-year-old bull mastiff then unwittingly found herself at the centre of an investigation into the murder of former boxer Brian Keating - but was finally reunited with her original owners thanks to the police.
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Can I disclaim the stereotype of Americans as living without the resonance of history, inhabiting the present with a childlike complacency, an unwitting, unreflecting arrogance?
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Some portray the family as unwitting dupes of conspiracy theorists.
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They worried that some newspaper organizations essentially, if unwittingly, are liquidating their businesses.
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The two women claimed they were the unwitting victims of a drugs dealer who planted a large quantity of heroin in their luggage.
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These were all blameless cases of unintentional and unwitting mental telegraphy, I judge.
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At the time one reasons fallaciously, one. typically does so unwittingly (One does not very often commit fallacies deliberately).
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The poacher is the sealing schooner Mary Thomas, hunting the seal pack along the coast of Japan and north of the Bering Sea, running into a heavy fog, and unwittingly crossing the line "where the Russian bear kept guard" with 1,500 seal skins in salt piles in the hold.
“The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .”
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He unwittingly collides with the toughest star player on the opposing team and is knocked unconscious, along with his gigantic opponent.
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The tireless enthusiast for the Middle Ages thus unwittingly confessed to an act of mindless vandalism.
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The others, if approached at the right moment, warned and threatened, might wittingly or unwittingly provide valuable information.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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The attempted robbery took place at around 11.10 pm on Sunday in Pilgrims Lane, South Ockendon, turning an unwitting driver into a vigilante.
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an unwitting subject in an experiment
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Also, Borckman was twittingly asked how many drinks he had taken, and if that was what accounted for his shooting being under his average.
CHAPTER IV
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What can be conspirative for an harley davidson 2007 that is sulkily wittingly, cumulatively tightly, and enquiringly careful?
Rational Review
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In February 1940 a nationwide campaign was launched that warned the general public against loose talk and the dangers of unwittingly giving information to enemy sympathizers.
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Nowadays many would prefer to forget it, lest its memory serve as a reproach against those who were witting or unwitting apologists for appeasement.
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Camberwick Green, probably unwittingly, supplied me with a conservative counter agenda to the counter-culture.
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But before long, Katherine and Eloise, two rather dippy teenagers from the family group, are, unwittingly, heading towards the first set of rapids.
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Carrot-munching Bugs Bunny was always being pursued by his human nemesis, hunter Elmer Fudd; yet, time and time again, Bugs would narrowly escape, outwitting the hapless Fudd.
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I thought, remembering the fun we used to have outwitting the police copters by crawling underneath parked cars until we reached safety.
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I prefer to believe that Karolina misplaced her campus email address, and unwittingly signed up for an account on a domain implicated in previous Internet scams.
Going to Karolina in My Mind
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Common medications such as Gravol or Benadryl, often unwittingly mixed with alcohol, are more likely to be the cause of blackouts or amnesia than the popular image "of a drink being spiked in a bar by some creepy guy," said Baker.
Ottawa Sun
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You might be an unwitting binge drinker.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have a desk calendar from Despair.com, a purveyor of darkly funny "demotivator" posters such as the one pictured below my unwittingly timely choice for February, as it turns out.
Articles
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It became fashionable in the Europe of the early 20C to see humans as unwittingly acting out neurosis and subconscious drives.
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He had jumped out of a light aircraft while unwittingly wearing a sabotaged parachute.
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Could there have been any other witting leaders?
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It was clear that, wittingly or unwittingly, he had offended her.
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In our hurry and impatience we thus tend to fall into confusion and error unwittingly; the sophist, on the other hand, deliberately glozes over or omits what is not obvious, and hopes to cover up his tracks by means of all the tricks of his trade.
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Lennie is a loveable, but mentally retarded giant, who does not know his own strength and unwittingly kills the animals he loves to pet.
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Ah si's face shone with satisfaction over the excellent result he had unwittingly produced.
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For the study of social need and welfare policy this is clearly right; yet it unwittingly helps to reinforce the stereotypes.
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Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit!
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The farmer and our taxi drivers obligingly moved some of the corn bales to reveal amazing frescoes of the Dormition and the Entry into Jerusalem, the paint having been unwittingly preserved by the bales.
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The anopheles mosquito, carrying the scourge of malaria, was the unwitting executioner of thousands of European soldiers sent to garrisons in the West Indies, Africa, or India.
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Gotta say, I had the same reaction to the “death panels” sentence — the feeling that she was twitting because she could, with a wink and a smile at the inevitable apoplexy of her opponents.
Sarah Palin’s Wall Street Journal Health Care Op-Ed. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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I regret any anxiety or concern which I may, unwittingly, have caused.
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Invest in a silk pillow case to reduce damage should you unwittingly roll over in the night.
Times, Sunday Times
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While Nora enthusiastically turns to fairy tales as a form of childhood therapy, she also unwittingly absorbs the genre's patriarchal and racist subtexts.
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By so doing he will rescue his own brother, too, and enable him to return home to his father a free man, all quite unwittingly, -- as in so many cases before now a man has often done more good unconsciously than wittingly. sed inscientes sua sibi fallacia ita compararunt et confinxerunt dolum itaque hi commenti, de sua sententia ut in servitute hic ad suom maneat patrem: ita nunc ignorans suo sibi servit patri; 50 homunculi quanti sunt, quom recogito! haec res agetur nobis, vobis fabula.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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Kudos to Mike Diehl, Edward Palumbo, et al. Why, has it not been on This Great Blog Itself that hunters have often been criticized (just recently, a wizened old codger related how he and a companion sagaciously enjoyed the wild countryside while riding behind two unwitting computer-geek-hunters … and so on and so forth)?
See Us in the Funny Pages
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Even as when the daughter of Pandareus, the nightingale of the greenwood, sings sweet in the first season of the spring, from her place in the thick leafage of the trees, and with many a turn and trill she pours forth her full-voiced music bewailing her child, dear Itylus, whom on a time she slew with the sword unwitting, Itylus the son of Zethus the prince; even as her song, my troubled soul sways to and fro.
Book XIX
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Did they unwittingly do the worst possible thing in response, thus altering a fragile balance for ever?
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Schools unwittingly erect a language barrier which must exclude great numbers of parents.
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Testing was conducted on an unwitting platoon from the 75th Ranger Regiment.
The Flirty Dozen
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He went for help, using his stairlift to go downstairs, and unwittingly called on the help of the thief's two accomplices.
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But Scotland themselves provided unwitting encouragement when he missed the chance which would have buried them.
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Isn't the main reason all these guys go ringless so that they can flirt with unwitting single women?
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The prime minister was an unwitting tool of the president.
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The war in which little David Gorey had become unwittingly involved was of a different character, undeclared and unrecognized.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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However, I think many Christian evangelicals are unwittingly abetting certain fascistic policies; how do you convince them that although their motives may seem "just" or "pure" they are in fact contributing to harmful political movements?
Easter Lemming Liberal News
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If youths consistently saw criminals outwitting police, they would idolise the criminals, Baksh added.
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Walkers can unwittingly damage the fragile environment in which the birds live.
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We're obsessed with the need for "alone time"; sometimes, many weekends in a row, this leads to unwitting hermitism.
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Unwittingly, he had unleashed the most diabolically destructive war machine yet engineered by the minds of men.
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Unwittingly she slumped in the chair, her legs stretched out, and reached her hands out towards the fire for a bit of warmth.
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By suggesting this they began quite unwittingly to undermine her confidence in the school and in herself.
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Sometimes this classification is unwitting and unhelped, sometimes those markers are deliberately sought out.
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And indeed we have been gifted at outwitting many groups of hounds out after us upon a foxhunt through carefully planned tactics of one sort or another to lead them in the wrong direction.
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Some women, hearing nothing for years, assumed that they were widows and married again, only for their soldier husbands to return from the wars, rendering them unwitting bigamists.
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My remarks about divorce had unwittingly touched a raw nerve.
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Everything said at this foolish board meeting unwittingly points to Scott's consummate grasp of the essentials of television.
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Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit!
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Once they twigged what was going on, these unwitting subscribers then found it ‘very difficult’ to opt out of the scheme.
