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Recent Examples of uncontrollably
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
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Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2026
Padilla and Gosling were a teacher and principal in another sketch reading passed notes out loud that, according to text on screen, were swapped out since rehearsal, causing both to crack up uncontrollably.
—Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Another surgeon recounted a case of a woman who started to bleed uncontrollably midway through surgery.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2026
Padilla and Gosling were a teacher and principal in another sketch reading passed notes out loud that, according to text on screen, were swapped out since rehearsal, causing both to crack up uncontrollably.
—Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Another surgeon recounted a case of a woman who started to bleed uncontrollably midway through surgery.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
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And still, crazily enough, there are occasional firsts.—
Dan Woike,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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All this happened before, with the aid of a boombox, Singh and the little girls taught me to crazily dance Punjabi-style in their welcoming home occupied by three generations.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Ziegler’s humor and sympathy for her characters—including Creon, who desperately wants to do right by everyone—saves the conflict between individual and state from heavy-handedness.—
Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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The city was founded at a time when a new harbor for trade with India was desperately needed in southern Mesopotamia.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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When the gates opened, people surged forward, not frantically, but with relief.—
Monti Carlo,
AJC.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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Instead, the Slovenian James Harden is showing the exact same limitations and attitudes that saw Dallas frantically dump him.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Competition intensified—with Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+, among others, entering the fray—and the 2010s’ Streaming Wars led to a golden age of TV as premium cable channels and streaming upstarts feverishly outspent one another for top talent.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Toulouse-Lautrec’s passionate lovers and can-can dancers will encourage feverishly romantic, smudgy lips.—
Loren Savini,
Allure,
10 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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One of the newest bands on the Street Mob roster, the quartet has stood out for its smoother, more sentimental approach to música mexicana — and for the wildly likable onstage presence of singer and frontman Gustavo Raya-García.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2026
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The outgoing president of the Kennedy Center leaves the institution renamed, nearly closed, and wildly unpopular.—
Jonathan L. Fischer,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 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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More recently, Joe Biden’s German shepherds, Major and Commander, come to mind as the quintessential presidential pets that ran amok.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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The assassination led to a political vacuum and plunged Haiti deeper into chaos, with armed gangs running amok.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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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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The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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