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unintentionally

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without design or purpose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an unintentional manner; not intentionally.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without intention; in an unintentional manner

Etymologies

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unintentional + -ly

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Examples

  • As its title unintentionally suggests, Sting's sixth solo outing isn't the high point of his career.

    Mercury Falling 1996

  • Trying out styles and imitating them, even unintentionally, is the natural process of growing as a writer.

    Episode 009 2010

  • And here's the empirical prediction: we shall not observe any such evolution. stunney: Now, if you disagree, and you know of any case of a code actually having been observed to have evolved unintentionally from a non-code in nature, then I'm all ears.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • This statement would still require specific empirical predictions of the posited 'Barrier'. stunney: Now, if you disagree, and you know of any case of a code actually having been observed to have evolved unintentionally from a non-code in nature, then I'm all ears.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • So supply your example of an actually observed case of code's evolving unintentionally from a non-code.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • From the posited existence of a 'Barrier', please provide specific empirical predictions that we can test. stunney: So supply your example of an actually observed case of code's evolving unintentionally from a non-code.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Then specify an observed instance of a code arising unintentionally from a non-code, with 'code' defined as per your preferred definition, whatever your preferred definition is.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Now, if you disagree, and you know of any case of a code actually having been observed to have evolved unintentionally from a non-code in nature, then I'm all ears.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • May 14th, 2007 at 8: 57 pm stunney Says: I think the question of whether codes can arise from non-codes unintentionally is very important.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • A 'yes' or 'no' will suffice. stunney: So supply your example of an actually observed case of code's evolving unintentionally from a non-code.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

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