UNCONTROLLABLY Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

uncontrollably

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as in crazily

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Meanwhile, wildfires have been blazing uncontrollably, most notably this week in the New Forest in southern England. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 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 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

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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

Definition of crazily

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But when careers in public interest law become less financially sustainable – or less financially predictable – recruiting the attorneys communities desperately need becomes even harder.

— Verna L. Williams, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Photos of the missing included a young mother and her baby in Pereira; another showed an 80-year-old woman in Cali whose family was desperately looking for details after her building collapsed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of desperately

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Video of the incident posted to TikTok show passengers frantically escaping the plane via its inflatable emergency slides on an airport taxiway.

— Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
That’s when 72-year-old Leidis Rodríguez frantically cooked beans after the lights switched on this week following hours of uninterrupted blackouts.

— Andrea Rodriguez, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of frantically

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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

Definition of feverishly

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Oren’s particular calibration across all aspects of her atmosphere, design, pacing, and performances make that movie an especially fascinating film to revisit, as the reading of it differs quite wildly each time.

— Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
Stewart had been singing with The Faces for several years before launching a wildly successful solo career in the early 1970s.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of wildly

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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

Definition of frenetically

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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

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