uncontrollably

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025 Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2025 The three of us kids quickly unraveled, laughing uncontrollably. Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Sitting at 1-2-1 on the season, the Dallas Cowboys head into their Week 5 game against the New York Jets desperately needing a victory to keep pace in the NFC East.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The result has been a less vibrant, less productive network of private enterprises unable to provide the economic growth that Cuba so desperately needs.
    Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, her parents frantically hide the rift from their audience.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Other actors stacked up projects like poker chips, supplementing TV work with movies, theatre gigs, or branding deals, feverishly hedging against the risks of a shrinking industry.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too — adoring and feverishly in love, so when Fleur announces that the pair are getting married over dinner with friends, everyone responds with joy and delight.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • In the 42nd minute, having cut inside Niang, Leysen lunged wildly to try and prevent Elanga recovering the ball, but got nowhere near it and conceded a penalty (he was harshly adjudged to have handballed it during the second half for another spot kick, too).
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Designer Joe Nahem of the esteemed firm Fox-Nahem was then brought in to merge the two spaces into one wildly creative space that vibrates with color, pattern, and texture.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Singer Brendan Yates’ intensity — at one point leaping with abandon, at another frenetically thrusting — is what makes Turnstile cook.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The thing was flushed down a toilet as a baby gator years earlier and is now running amok, chomping down on whomever looks appetizing.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Conspiracy theories on Butler shooting persist In more than a year since the shooting and preliminary investigation took place, the FBI has released little additional information about Crooks, opening another avenue for conspiracies to run amok, the New York Times reported.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This is a story about two young people who find each other, fall madly in love, and are then torn apart by unimaginable disaster — one rendered by the obsessive director in minute, breathless, excruciating detail.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • William falls immediately, madly in love with Agnes.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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