as in stubborn
given to resisting control or discipline by others
the uncontrollable child kept throwing tantrums in public and creating scenes
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Recent Examples of uncontrollable
Societies becoming trapped in these incredibly powerful but ultimately uncontrollable information networks?
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Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
Biofeedback Biofeedback is a method that teaches the body how to control normally uncontrollable responses like heart rate, temperature, and blood pressure.
—Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2024
Worse, few if any in Washington seem bothered by the situation and those few who talk about deficits insist on distractions and studiously avoid the fraught politics implicit in where the budget’s underlying problem lies: the uncontrollable growth of entitlements spending.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The upcoming presidential election, in other words, could help determine whether AI becomes an unparalleled tool of productivity or an uncontrollable agent of chaos.
—Eric Geller, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
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Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
Biofeedback Biofeedback is a method that teaches the body how to control normally uncontrollable responses like heart rate, temperature, and blood pressure.
—Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2024
Worse, few if any in Washington seem bothered by the situation and those few who talk about deficits insist on distractions and studiously avoid the fraught politics implicit in where the budget’s underlying problem lies: the uncontrollable growth of entitlements spending.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The upcoming presidential election, in other words, could help determine whether AI becomes an unparalleled tool of productivity or an uncontrollable agent of chaos.
—Eric Geller, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollable
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The year is 1600 and a stubborn British seaman piloting a Dutch ship washes ashore in Japan.Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
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Salt And Oil Some cooks like to use coarse salt to remove stubborn messes on cast iron.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
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Getting through a busy terminal with your carry-on luggage is hard enough; factor in a latte and the cargo suddenly becomes unmanageable.Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
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This cycle can lead to mounting debt that becomes unmanageable.True Tamplin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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But even Jewish-Jewish coalitions have proved ungovernable.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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The many examples of personal incompetence in rich industrial democracies generated the thesis that such countries had become ungovernable.Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
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What began as a series of hopeful pro-democracy protests in Syria in 2011 ballooned into a devastating and intractable conflict that contributed to one of the most severe refugee crises since World War II.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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In 2007, Nelson Mandela founded the Elders, an NGO that sought to find solutions to the world’s most intractable clashes.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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The film also starred Colin Firth as a widower who requires a nanny to look after his unruly offspring.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2024
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In 2023, there were 2,075 unruly passenger reports, 512 investigations initiated, 402 enforcement actions taken and $7.5 million fines levied, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2024
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The charges included conspiracy to obstruct justice and 32 counts of willful retention of national defense information.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
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Adorno, in his own writing about his time in Italy, was more sensitive to the kind of willful projections his countrymen were making onto the place, which was already overrun by tourism.Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Paul Giamatti stars as a curmudgeonly teacher stuck at school for winter break who befriends and bonds with a rebellious student (newcomer Dominic Sessa) and a grieving head cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who won an Oscar for the role).Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
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Sit down, sit down, with your gaping cupboards and your rebellious buttons.James Parker, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
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The wayward Arctic fox found in Portland and recently transferred to a Wisconsin zoo was diagnosed with salmon poisoning.Axios Portland, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
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There's no national reconciliation to be had here, just a wayward son spared from the bracing legal accountability so many others have had to face.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Uncontrollable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollable. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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