knowingly

adverb

Definition of knowinglynext
as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing cannot convict unless the defendant knowingly committed perjury

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Recent Examples of knowingly Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier also sued OpenAI in June, alleging the company knowingly released an unsafe product that could harm users. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 The 36-year-old Carroll was arrested in February and charged with 20 counts of knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest bodily fluid, plus three counts of malicious destruction of property. — Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Florida accuses the company of knowingly engineering its platforms to be addictive to teens, and misleading consumers about its safety. — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026 The government can also pursue criminal charges for knowingly procuring citizenship unlawfully. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Through the ball’s circular shape and its lack of color, the painting knowingly winks at Piet Mondrian’s Composition 10 in Black and White (1915), then defiles the Dutch modernist’s aesthetic purity. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 According to the complaint, Mohamud knowingly received a firearm and ammunition, including a Norinco AK-47 assault rifle and approximately 200 live rounds of ammunition, to commit a felony and a federal crime of terrorism. — Whitney Wild, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 No business would knowingly keep an underperforming employee in a critical role without a way to review performance or make a change. — Tara Youngblood, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 In a news release Friday, Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said bringing a weapon to school and knowingly making a false report about one can have serious consequences under state law. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knowingly
  1. intentionally
  2. deliberately
  3. purposely
Adverb
  • The center’s name intentionally evokes both scale and possibility.
    — Sarah Belmont for ArtNews, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The commission would have to hold three public hearings and could not make changes that intentionally favor a political party or unnecessarily divide communities.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of intentionally
Adverb
  • God seems deliberately to have created variety and cognitive function in the human species.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Investigators were trying to determine Wednesday whether the robot's actions were deliberately controlled by two young men who apparently livestreamed the incident in the western city of Cologne on social media.
    — October 14, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of deliberately
Adverb
  • It was purposely drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission to be the most competitive in Colorado — and the most heavily Latino.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
  • It was covered in ash, as if it had been washed, dried, then purposely covered in soot.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of purposely

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“Knowingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowingly. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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