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Recent Examples of spontaneously
Again and again, the band falls (petulantly, peevishly, with English accents and English swear words) into the gap between its bombastic self-image and the facts on the ground, the dwindling ticket sales and tiny sandwiches and spontaneously combusting drummers.
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Less than a dozen blocks away from my home and within a mile of downtown Oakland, a multi-ton pile of scrap metal threatens to spontaneously combust under the hot sun.
—Brian Beveridge, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
And yet, when people follow this advice, for instance, by oversharing, acting spontaneously, without much consideration for what others think, and refusing to adapt or adjust their behavior to meet others’ needs, the result tends to be avoidable conflict, career derailment, or worse.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
In fact, recent EEOC actions – such as spontaneously demanding information from law firms about their diversity initiatives – that arguably exceed its authority are being challenged in court.
—Deborah Widiss, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
His supporters spontaneously clapped when a judge reversed Mason’s jury conviction for tampering with a witness in a Miami-Dade murder-for-hire case — then accepted his plea to a lesser charge of making a false statement to a federal agent.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Verbal fluency is the ability to rapidly and spontaneously produce appropriate words when speaking.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Now, a team of chemists at University College London (UCL) has recreated this elusive step, showing how amino acids could have spontaneously attached to RNA under conditions thought to resemble those on the early Earth.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
Now a civil servant and parent herself, Helen told Newsweek that the slate-and-rock activity happened spontaneously.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Less than a dozen blocks away from my home and within a mile of downtown Oakland, a multi-ton pile of scrap metal threatens to spontaneously combust under the hot sun.
—Brian Beveridge, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
And yet, when people follow this advice, for instance, by oversharing, acting spontaneously, without much consideration for what others think, and refusing to adapt or adjust their behavior to meet others’ needs, the result tends to be avoidable conflict, career derailment, or worse.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
In fact, recent EEOC actions – such as spontaneously demanding information from law firms about their diversity initiatives – that arguably exceed its authority are being challenged in court.
—Deborah Widiss, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
His supporters spontaneously clapped when a judge reversed Mason’s jury conviction for tampering with a witness in a Miami-Dade murder-for-hire case — then accepted his plea to a lesser charge of making a false statement to a federal agent.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Verbal fluency is the ability to rapidly and spontaneously produce appropriate words when speaking.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Now, a team of chemists at University College London (UCL) has recreated this elusive step, showing how amino acids could have spontaneously attached to RNA under conditions thought to resemble those on the early Earth.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
Now a civil servant and parent herself, Helen told Newsweek that the slate-and-rock activity happened spontaneously.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spontaneously
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Since a key tenet of the Shakers was lifelong abstinence, those numbers have naturally dwindled.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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That curiosity, paired with systemic thinking, naturally leads to insights that matter to the business, our customers and the industry at large.—
Heather Rosenow,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The club signed world-class players in key positions to automatically make the squad stronger.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Or toggle the switch to Night Mode, and the light will come on automatically whenever its sensor detects night has fallen.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
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As machines look and act more human, people may instinctively empathize with them.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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Those not chronically online might instinctively recoil at the term brain rot, with its vaguely gory connotations, especially as concern about the potential harms of social media for adolescents mounts.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Opponents of the idea see a hand on the scale and a new label on a socialist effort to redistribute wealth and opportunity randomly and haphazardly without a thought as to possible consequences.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Those are potentially fascinating conflicts, explored haphazardly.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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Analysts, on the other hand, can explore data intuitively by asking questions in natural language, without needing technical tools.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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But criticism points to a person’s character, which feels intuitively permanent.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Barry Lian, a 24-year-old master’s degree graduate from southeastern China who spent three years studying in the US, had dreams of working on Wall Street – until his student visa was abruptly revoked last July.—
Joyce Jiang,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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The shocking assassination of the Turning Point USA co-founder abruptly ended the event as thousands ran in panic and left the nation reeling.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This announcement represents a major milestone in the software and hardware needed to efficiently process inference queries, disaggregating inference processing into two workloads with a GPU tailored for each in the case of long-context windows greater than one million tokens.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The electric system is underperforming because utilities and energy companies don’t get rewarded for making the existing system operate more efficiently or adopting new technologies that could render outdated systems obsolete.—
Brian Deese,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Phillies could be interested in adding some more depth and Hampson is suddenly an option after the Cardinals designated him for assignment on Sunday.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Then the Jacksonville, Florida, resident suddenly collapsed in her bedroom while getting ready for work.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Spontaneously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spontaneously. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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