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Recent Examples of involuntarily
Rupert was involuntarily reassigned to another school in the district, but has since gone on medical leave due to depression and anxiety.
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Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2025
At a recent forum on public safety sponsored by the policy journal Vital City, he was asked about police involuntarily detaining the mentally ill.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Since January, 139 have been fired, nudged into early retirement or involuntarily transferred — an unprecedented shakeup central to his deportation efforts.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Wood is emphatic that no child is placed involuntarily.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
In that moment, Dupree involuntarily punches him and the pair go quiet as Dooley cusses and bends over wincing in pain.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Besides motion sickness, some workers lose control under VR helmets, either losing hearing outside sounds coming from within the helmet or extending arms involuntarily.
—Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Many of Fuentes’ followers are incels, or involuntarily celibate.
—Quispe López, Them., 19 Sep. 2025
During the Great Recession, more than half of people who retired did so involuntarily.
—Dan Doonan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2025
At a recent forum on public safety sponsored by the policy journal Vital City, he was asked about police involuntarily detaining the mentally ill.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Since January, 139 have been fired, nudged into early retirement or involuntarily transferred — an unprecedented shakeup central to his deportation efforts.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Wood is emphatic that no child is placed involuntarily.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
In that moment, Dupree involuntarily punches him and the pair go quiet as Dooley cusses and bends over wincing in pain.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Besides motion sickness, some workers lose control under VR helmets, either losing hearing outside sounds coming from within the helmet or extending arms involuntarily.
—Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Many of Fuentes’ followers are incels, or involuntarily celibate.
—Quispe López, Them., 19 Sep. 2025
During the Great Recession, more than half of people who retired did so involuntarily.
—Dan Doonan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for involuntarily
Adverb
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Critics also point out that even though Reflect Orbital intends to illuminate targeted areas, the satellites’ movement will cause the light beams to sweep over large regions of Earth, inevitably.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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His roving life inevitably prompts questions.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The influencer, 36, has made her name online sharing the good, bad and often unavoidably comical realities of her life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Raises aren’t even necessarily off the table at organizations that are downsizing, according to some experts.—
Cathy Bussewitz,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Christopher O’Leary, a former senior executive at the FBI who now works for The Soufan Group, an intelligence and security consultancy, said that pulling agents into immigration or policing city streets necessarily means dropping other cases.—
Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In between times, there are long shots of the gingko, tree’s-eye views of what is happening on the ground and squelching closeups of germinating seeds – luscious and inescapably sensual.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Evie used her index finger to point out the striking contrasts and balances, the alignment and repetition, the various nuances that made the work unmistakably and inescapably hers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Involuntarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/involuntarily. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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