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Recent Examples of uncontrollably
Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
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Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
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.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
My jaw twitched uncontrollably.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
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.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
My jaw twitched uncontrollably.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 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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As college athletic departments desperately look for money to pay mostly football and men’s basketball players, dumping a golf, tennis, track or swimming and diving program is an easy way to help with the budget.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
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With the bye week landing in October, the Bills will desperately need a chance to regroup after that gantlet through the holidays.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Third base coach Hector Borg frantically waved Lee home, and Lee kept his foot on the gas.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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Employees were frantically readying the space to serve its first customers.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Evoking Sean Baker in its style, a whirlwind 10-minute opening sequence — sweatily shot by Adam Newport-Berra and feverishly cut by editors Taylor Levy and Sofía Subercaseaux to a steady, heavy throb of bass — establishes this world to either seductive or nightmarish effect.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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Schools now feverishly compete to prepare graduates with simplistic educational remedies driven by competitive branding agendas, providing symbolic curriculum overhauls as recruiting and job-placement signals, regardless of whether such courses share a coherent body of core knowledge.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But Mexican authorities believe that the measles virus probably arrived in the throat or lungs of the third-grader, who was unvaccinated, and then spread wildly.—
Mary Beth Sheridan,
CNN Money,
17 May 2026
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As a result, the Oscar-winner maintained, gender imbalance is still wildly present in the industry.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
17 May 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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The central performances are strong, with Brown perfectly embodying a sinister, otherworldly image of masculinity run amok.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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With the South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to overturn the double murder conviction of Alex Murdaugh, a twisted tale of power run amok in the Lowcountry gets a surprising new chapter.—
Suzanne Van Atten,
AJC.com,
13 May 2026
Adverb
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And all the while underlings scrambled madly for a correct number.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Poor, innocent Henrietta falls madly in love with Matthau's character, the first person to shower her with kindness and care.—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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