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Recent Examples of uncontrollably
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
Minutes after accomplishing this, both spacecraft started tumbling uncontrollably.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2026
Armstrong and Scott were forced to end the mission early when both spacecraft started to tumble uncontrollably after the astronauts completed the first successful docking in space.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
The robot began swinging its arms uncontrollably, smashing plates and sending chopsticks and dishware flying across the table.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
Minutes after accomplishing this, both spacecraft started tumbling uncontrollably.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2026
Armstrong and Scott were forced to end the mission early when both spacecraft started to tumble uncontrollably after the astronauts completed the first successful docking in space.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
The robot began swinging its arms uncontrollably, smashing plates and sending chopsticks and dishware flying across the table.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
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Thanks to a crazily unlikely accident, the researchers had witnessed a sperm-whale birth and had managed to videotape the entire event.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2026
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And still, crazily enough, there are occasional firsts.—
Dan Woike,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The Rams desperately need some field-stretching speed and explosiveness.—
Michael Salfino,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Anthropic tried desperately to contain the fallout after exposing the source code.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Two crew members have been recovered while another remains in Iran, with search-and-rescue teams frantically trying to find him.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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The robot appears in the film at the info booth at the galactic weigh station as Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi frantically try to catch up with Peach.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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At one point near the play’s tragic climax, Willy is feverishly planting seeds in the backyard, but Elliott gives no credibility to any of his character’s actions.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Bush and Mueller worked closely as US authorities feverishly sought to stop the next possible terrorist attack.—
Josh Campbell,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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And while the legal penalties for the two are wildly different, the results behind the wheel are often just as dangerous.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Nashville broke a three-way traffic jam on Saturday via a 6-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks and the Kings prevailed in a wildly unpredictable, and at times unprofessional, match against Toronto, 7-6 in overtime.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Their conversation bounced around frenetically, as their conversations tended to do.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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The early-career excitement Spielberg generated with Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind came to a thudding halt with the frenetically busy, hopelessly bloated war comedy, 1941.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Last week’s, still in theaters, saw Sarah Michelle Gellar stalking someone, and the new one has Heather Graham’s eyeball running amok.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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In the movie, Black’s Bowser — the Koopa King — is madly in love with Princess Peach, voiced by Taylor-Joy.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Nineties were madly in love with Elvis, to the point where the Naked Gun movies could get laughs by casting 1960s Broadway star Robert Goulet as Priscilla Presley’s love interest — an in-joke for fans who knew that her husband hated Goulet and would shoot out TVs at the sight of his face.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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