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Recent Examples of involuntarily
When the condition strikes, that signal is distorted, causing muscles to move involuntarily or get stuck in an abnormal position.
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
TikTok itself has started hiring managers specifically to support news creators, while Remillard herself is part of a growing coterie of journalists who’ve gone independent — either by choice or involuntarily because of a layoff.
—Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
In February, New York City Mayor Eric Adams directed NYPD and city officials to take people into custody involuntarily for psychiatric evaluations, drawing outrage from NYC advocacy groups.
—Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
The Chicago man was was involuntarily committed for psychological evaluation at Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said.
—Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
The order also calls for involuntarily committing homeless people with mental illness to mental health institutions.
—Stephen Przybylinski, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
Wanted to go home but got your enlistment extended involuntarily for another year, because war, because Needs of the Navy?
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
TikTok itself has started hiring managers specifically to support news creators, while Remillard herself is part of a growing coterie of journalists who’ve gone independent — either by choice or involuntarily because of a layoff.
—Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
In February, New York City Mayor Eric Adams directed NYPD and city officials to take people into custody involuntarily for psychiatric evaluations, drawing outrage from NYC advocacy groups.
—Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
The Chicago man was was involuntarily committed for psychological evaluation at Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said.
—Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
The order also calls for involuntarily committing homeless people with mental illness to mental health institutions.
—Stephen Przybylinski, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
Wanted to go home but got your enlistment extended involuntarily for another year, because war, because Needs of the Navy?
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for involuntarily
Adverb
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Anything that went awry in the area seemed to inevitably lead to suspicion that Phillips might be involved.—
Todd Symons,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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These are the Browns, which means more excruciating losses are inevitably incoming.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 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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Just because data is used does not mean that reliable, responsible insight is necessarily being delivered.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The show nonetheless succeeds in establishing a sense of nostalgia for the idea of the newspaper—not as a vector of Pulitzer-worthy journalism, necessarily, but as a physical thing.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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 11 Sep. 2025.
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