witting
Example Sentences
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An agent is a paid and witting spy; he formally, sometimes covertly, works for a foreign government.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2025
“We expect financial institutions will undertake every effort to ensure that they are not witting or unwitting facilitators of circumvention and evasion,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement announcing the order.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023
Yet they often falter when reckoning with their own role, witting or not, in what came to pass.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018
We believe that future campaigns will be compounded by the employment of witting or unwitting U.S.
From The Verge • Aug. 2, 2018
We in sorrow coldly witting, In the bleak world sitting, sitting, By the forest, near the mould, Heard the summer calling, calling, Through the dead leaves falling, falling, That her life grew faint and old.
From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Lampman, Archibald
