deliberately

Example Sentences

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A hotel fire in Glasgow city centre is not believed to have been started deliberately, police said.

From BBC

He convinces himself without any justification that Phineas is his enemy and “had deliberately set out to wreck” his studies by distracting him from schoolwork.

From The Wall Street Journal

In these experiments, researchers deliberately created many different mutations within a single gene or section of the genome in organisms such as yeast and E. coli.

From Science Daily

And a third group consists of professionals engaged in geographic arbitrage — people who secured remote positions in lower cost-of-living areas, deliberately bypassing the marginally higher salaries typically found in expensive metro areas.

From MarketWatch

Current and former lawmakers also say the power shifts reflect the vision of North Carolina’s founders, who deliberately made the state’s governor weak and its legislature strong to prevent abuses suffered under British rule.

From Salon