uncontrollably

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026 Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026 Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2026 Back in their dorm room after the beating, Valentine watched as Okeadu began to tremble uncontrollably. ABC News, 30 June 2026 But across Oklahoma, the fluid is spreading uncontrollably belowground, blasting out of old, unplugged wells, polluting land and contaminating drinking water. Katie Campbell, ProPublica, 2 June 2026 The Eagles posted a video on the night of the trade of Hurts and Brown on a FaceTime call with each other, laughing uncontrollably. Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 2 June 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 My jaw twitched uncontrollably. Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • And when Andreeva hits one of her crazily creative shots and turns to Martínez for praise, she is met with a smile, and maybe some clapping.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 June 2026
  • The scene used one of the film’s funniest visual gags, an apartment so crazily tilted that nobody inside it could stand up straight.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Adverb
  • The simple answer is that air conditioning is not customary in France, and their architecture is traditionally not built to accommodate it well, even for those who are now desperately seeking relief.
    Morgan Simon, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • No contender needed offensive upgrades more desperately than the Guardians, who own the league’s worst team OPS.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Fox recorded video of Stout leaving the area calmly after the fire started among others frantically getting away from the fast-spreading wildfire, Noel told the judge.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
  • Baela isn’t sleeping or eating and is frantically seeking redemption after blaming herself for Jace’s death.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Adverb
  • Teams feverishly shifted their rosters for a chance at the next title run, a shot at the Knicks’ throne.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
  • General manager Julien BriseBois was feverishly trying to improve the roster for next season and beyond.
    Eduardo A. Encina, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026
Adverb
  • After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.
    Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This urban concentration creates hidden local impacts, including wildly uneven regional carbon emissions depending on whether the local grid relies on fossil fuels or green energy.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Third base coach Bobby Crosby frenetically waved him home, and Wilson hit the turn hard.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • And the score by Michael Abels (who collaborated with Jordan Peele on Get Out and Nope) is an all-timer, unsettling and steeped in dread to start and then frenetically nerve-shredding as things get hairier.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Adverb
  • The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
    Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • Following a string of low-budget hits, Wheatley was handed the reins of the sequel to the smash Jason Statham-starring action film about a prehistoric shark run amok in the modern world.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 20 June 2026
Adverb
  • Florence, Italy Florence is an easy place to fall madly, deeply, in love with.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
  • The young couple was madly in love, Marilyn and Robert told the Herald.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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