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Recent Examples of uncontrollably
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
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Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2026
Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
—Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 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 the Timberwolves desperately searched for an equalizer in the final five minutes, Notre Dame goaltender Kendra DeLawter stood tall in net, robbing two point-blank attempts to preserve the lead for the Cougars.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
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In the early days Sephora desperately needed department store brands to attract, well, department store customers.—
Jenny B. Fine,
Footwear News,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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Ring camera footage obtained by the outlet shows a woman frantically knocking on a neighbor's door and begging for help moments after the child was struck.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
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The student riding with Estabrook, who the choir director sent frantically driving for help, had raced to the neighboring oil refinery, where two cranes were dispatched to intervene.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2026
Adverb
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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
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Companies are feverishly deploying them across their workforces, encouraging employees to use the tech as much as possible.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
29 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This is likely the reason why the aye-aye took a wildly different evolutionary route to its counterparts.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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But motivations diverge wildly at this stage of a season, making fixture difficulty tricky to assess.—
Ayo Akinwolere,
New York Times,
10 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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France is not a country in which kids run amok shouting, so although the garden is a nice place for the junior set to play, bear in mind that the adult guests are trying to enjoy a relaxing stay.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
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His presentation is classification run amok in which colors are anthropomorphized, and the world is recast as a kind of color war.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 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
Cite this Entry
“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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