uncontrollably

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 8 Nov. 2025 Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025 There is always a chance the stem cells could grow uncontrollably, crowding out native cells and damaging the brain. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025 Meanwhile, her mom and aunt can be heard laughing uncontrollably behind the camera. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 The best anecdote is one about the film’s sneak preview in Pasadena where the audience, expecting another Exorcist, started laughing uncontrollably at what was on screen. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • Granted, by the time the Jet Skis are swinging crazily in the air, Nathan has only been onboard for a few hours.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • States, cities and food banks have been ramping up donations desperately trying to fill the gap.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The most recent plug-in hybrid version of the hatchback takes things up a notch, completely reinvigorating a nameplate that desperately needed a makeover.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • The phone logs show Goudreau frantically trying to get Denman and Berry out safely.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • When Marissa runs through her house, frantically searching for Milo, the scene doubles as a tour of the Irvines’ palatial lakefront home as captured by directors Minkie Spiro and Kate Dennis.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Among the new cohort was Wu Fei, 32, feverishly touted by local media as China’s youngest astronaut ever to make it to space.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The group spent the next week feverishly uploading data and scientific protocols to an online repository and transferring access to park staff whose jobs seemed more secure.
    Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Get to Know Erika Council Erika Council, a chef, author, and the owner of Atlanta’s wildly popular Bomb Biscuit Company, stopped by the Southern Living offices to do this interview in person.
    Sid Evans, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Patti Smith wrote a new reflection on her life, a follow up to her other wildly popular memoirs, ten years in the making.
    Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Singer Brendan Yates’ intensity — at one point leaping with abandon, at another frenetically thrusting — is what makes Turnstile cook.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Producers Mufasa and Yvng Gucci seamlessly pull off morphing the skittering drums of a somewhat generic UK drill beat into a thudding bouyon rhythm for Guadeloupean trio HollyG to run amok over.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
  • One of the company’s biggest, Guillermo del Toro, has been vehemently opposed to the tech, and his new film Frankenstein, currently in theaters and on Netflix next month, even plays as a cautionary tale about the dangers of letting technological progress run amok.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Die My Love focuses on a madly in-love couple who fracture once Grace gives birth to their son.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
  • And the man who would be the Boss was truly, madly, deeply confused about what to do next.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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