Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontrollable
Adjective
  • The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • These faulty proteins accumulate in a deep brain structure called the striatum and cause symptoms such as uncontrollable movements, muscle spasms and cognitive decline that worsen over time.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers, these small canines are energetic, bold and stubborn.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Both options meant navigating some stubborn supporters.
    Kevin Coulson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Digital exhaustion increased to 84% in 2025 from 75% the prior year, while unmanageable workloads also rose to 77%, per the report.
    Sawdah Bhaimiya Aisha Ditta, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • For many families, those costs are unmanageable, and yet the emotional toll of being far away is even higher.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The gamble backfired and his centrist bloc lost seats to the far right and far left, leaving France with a divided National Assembly and effectively ungovernable.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the ocean itself plays its ungovernable part.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • One can make the case that many voters are also willing to be selective in their vision—the right’s defense of free speech gathered steam despite the Republican Party suffering from even more seemingly intractable internal contradictions on the issue.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Kizzi is an intractable flirt, a trait that is very popular with the boys, and, from the looks of the preview at the end of the episode, also with the girls.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Miller was charged with domestic abuse assault, willful injury and kidnapping, according to the sheriff.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • He has been charged with armed kidnapping, willful injury, domestic abuse assault with the intent to inflict serious injuries and obstruction of emergency communications, according to public court records.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Western world is experiencing something of a psychedelic renaissance, with an increasing amount of interest in drugs that decades ago were considered rebellious and dangerous to some groups but fun to others who used it while clubbing and attending raves.
    Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Bob and Zoyd are both paranoid in the wake of their rebellious pasts.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Anderson plunges the audience into the rebels’ point of view, immersing us in the recalcitrant pride and swagger of Perfidia Beverly Hills, a revolutionary leader played by Teyana Taylor with a hypnotic sneer of defiance.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Congress remains recalcitrant to gun reform even after the gruesome scenes at Parkland, Uvalde, and Sandy Hook.
    John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Incontrollable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incontrollable. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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