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Recent Examples of involuntarily
The film contrasts the picturesque Alpine scenery of Tyrol with the hopelessness and isolation of the people who live in this landscape involuntarily – rejected asylum seekers placed on top of the Bürglkopf mountain.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
The program is open to nationals returning voluntarily and involuntarily.
—Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Rupert was involuntarily reassigned to another school in the district, but has since gone on medical leave due to depression and anxiety.
—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
Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
The program is open to nationals returning voluntarily and involuntarily.
—Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Rupert was involuntarily reassigned to another school in the district, but has since gone on medical leave due to depression and anxiety.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for involuntarily
Adverb
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This cynicism inevitably besmirches players, coaches, and referees who have no ties to gambling.—
Danny Funt,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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Planting trees that aren't adapted to your climate will inevitably end in disappointment.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 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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Still, that was enough for rice to maintain its hold as the county’s most valuable crop, if not necessarily its most lucrative.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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What’s really fun is that the character logic wouldn’t be logic of necessarily the world.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
29 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 4 Nov. 2025.
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