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as in naturally
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as in automatically
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Recent Examples of spontaneously
That same night, unbeknownst to friends and family, the couple spontaneously wed in a courthouse wedding.
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Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
Perhaps most notably, in several areas along the Western Front during World War I, British and German troops spontaneously observed an unofficial truce to celebrate the Christmas holiday and bury their dead.
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Steve S. Medeiros,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
Every so often, one of the South African teams would spontaneously burst into song, dragging everyone in earshot into an impromptu dance party.
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Ryan Lenora Brown,
NPR,
14 June 2026
The Malibu spontaneously caught fire at one point during the incident, resulting in the vehicle being consumed by flames, according to the sheriff's office.
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Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
The neighbors who spontaneously provided food and drinks to the first responders on the scene.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
For this latest study, Loukola was interested in whether bees could spontaneously solve problems.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
4 June 2026
Smooth logistics mean more energy to explore spontaneously.
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Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2026
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
Perhaps most notably, in several areas along the Western Front during World War I, British and German troops spontaneously observed an unofficial truce to celebrate the Christmas holiday and bury their dead.
—
Steve S. Medeiros,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
Every so often, one of the South African teams would spontaneously burst into song, dragging everyone in earshot into an impromptu dance party.
—
Ryan Lenora Brown,
NPR,
14 June 2026
The Malibu spontaneously caught fire at one point during the incident, resulting in the vehicle being consumed by flames, according to the sheriff's office.
—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
The neighbors who spontaneously provided food and drinks to the first responders on the scene.
—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together.
—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
For this latest study, Loukola was interested in whether bees could spontaneously solve problems.
—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
4 June 2026
Smooth logistics mean more energy to explore spontaneously.
—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spontaneously
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Blurring bamboo silk powders keep shine in check without dulling skin, while camellia seed oil and antioxidant-rich vitamin E help mature complexions look smooth, hydrated, and naturally luminous.
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By building circuits whose states naturally fluctuate with this environmental heat, thermodynamic computing turns an otherwise stochastic and chaotic feature of nature into an incredibly fast, ultra-low-energy calculator.
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But a longer career doesn't automatically equate to higher performance.
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This horoscope was generated automatically using information from Sanctuary.
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What Simmons did instinctively when building from scratch has to be engineered deliberately in organizations where workflows already exist and people already have stakes in them.
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Humans are instinctively averse to pain, conditioned instead to solve and strengthen and maximize, to inure ourselves to hurt.
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Towel Bars Towel bars can easily look sloppy once a few towels have been haphazardly hung on them.
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In a May 5 Facebook post, officials in Saône-et-Loire, France, shared a video of a deer haphazardly running in circles around a field in what appeared to be an intoxicated state.
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My father understood this intuitively.
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Those numbers reflect something many workers already know intuitively—chronic exposure to a hostile or unpredictable manager wears you down in ways that extend beyond the office.
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The music stops abruptly as the Grammy winner breathes deeply and even seems to stumble backward at one point.
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Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model was abruptly pulled from public release by government order, citing national security concerns.
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Protecting customers starts with managing infrastructure efficiently and delivering the investments already underway.
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At that level, air density has dropped by close to 40 percent, which wreaks havoc on an internal combustion engine, which needs oxygen to operate efficiently.
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The Rays took the lead in the fifth with another homer from their suddenly potent hitters.
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Tears suddenly dampen his face.
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“Spontaneously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spontaneously. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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