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
A witting asset is a person or entity who knows that there is a foreign power working in their interest.
From Salon • May 22, 2019
Yet they often falter when reckoning with their own role, witting or not, in what came to pass.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018
When the Queen heareth these letters and this witting of her son that came thus by his death, she falleth in a swoon on the coffer.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
