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The fast-moving tide sometimes surprises unwary swimmers.
e-mail scams that take advantage of unwary recipients
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These are unexplainable phenomena scattered throughout the game’s world that can kill an unwary player in an instant.
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Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Some of these bad actors are even setting up fake Hugging Face profiles to pose as Meta or other technology companies to lure downloads from the unwary, according to Swanson.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
To joke about faking the moon landing while faking romance is a twisted attempt at keeping us gullible and unwary.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 July 2024
Unless accelerated by a tanning bed, skin damage can take years, if not decades to develop, experts say, leaving today’s unwary youth at risk for early skin aging and lethal skin cancers such as melanoma.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 June 2024
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Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Some of these bad actors are even setting up fake Hugging Face profiles to pose as Meta or other technology companies to lure downloads from the unwary, according to Swanson.
—Iain Martin, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
To joke about faking the moon landing while faking romance is a twisted attempt at keeping us gullible and unwary.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 July 2024
Unless accelerated by a tanning bed, skin damage can take years, if not decades to develop, experts say, leaving today’s unwary youth at risk for early skin aging and lethal skin cancers such as melanoma.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 June 2024
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“Unwary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unwary. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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unwary
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un·wary
ˌən-ˈwa(ə)r-ē 
-ˈwe(ə)r-,
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