uncontrollably

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Bone Cancer Bone cancer develops when abnormal cells multiply and grow uncontrollably, forming a tumor in the bone. Lindsay Curtis, Health, 11 Sep. 2025 Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025 Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads. Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025 Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads. Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • New York desperately needs a win against deGrom, but Alonso knows that's never an easy task.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Royals, who are desperately clinging to slim playoff odds, now have four-fifths of their Opening Day rotation on the IL after Lugo and Wacha joined Kris Bubic and Cole Ragans on the shelf.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Staffers frantically searched for updates on his condition.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Some are stockpiling ingredients, while others are frantically seeking alternative suppliers.
    Phil Lempert, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too — adoring and feverishly in love, so when Fleur announces that the pair are getting married over dinner with friends, everyone responds with joy and delight.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even his detractors can agree on that, although the cinephiles who feverishly pursued this particular grail may not support this resolution.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • On the ground in Wedgewood Houston, a tiny bird fought an army of enclosing fire ants, wildly kicking and flailing.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Atom’s order to alter Nibs’ memory seems wildly shortsighted, if the plan was to keep her around the other hybrids.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But then, given how frenetically thrashing the entire tariff and trade policy and strategy have been in practice, expecting a predictable rollout and impact was probably unrealistic on everyone’s part.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Even with its two hour-plus running time, Franz feels dense but nimble, Tomasz Naumiuk’s cinematography often in motion, or static as the characters flow frenetically from room to room within the frame, especially in the Kafka family home.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The thing was flushed down a toilet as a baby gator years earlier and is now running amok, chomping down on whomever looks appetizing.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Conspiracy theories on Butler shooting persist In more than a year since the shooting and preliminary investigation took place, the FBI has released little additional information about Crooks, opening another avenue for conspiracies to run amok, the New York Times reported.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • William falls immediately, madly in love with Agnes.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Not just the Prime Minister upstairs, but the conspiracy theorist who runs the cafe three floors below, the man who repairs the lift that never works, the madly ambitious ‘advisors’ fighting for office space in cupboards.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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