uncontrollably

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2026 Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026 Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads. Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 14 June 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
  • Spain desperately needs a win to get its World Cup back on track while another good performance from Saudi Arabia — unbeaten in its last three games — would have the Arabian Falcons dreaming of a spot in the knockout stage.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Over the course of the movie, the pair try desperately to solve the mystery of the entity, unwilling to stay away from each other.
    Arushi Jacob, Variety, 19 June 2026
Adverb
  • The Volkswagen’s passenger would be identified as Miriam Patricia Avila, 37, a woman whose family had been frantically trying to reach her.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
  • The other is the agonizingly good stunt coordination by Julian Spencer that makes men slide in the mud frantically trying to grab and snap each other’s fingers.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Adverb
  • Devastating and often fatal wrong-way crashes have MassDOT and lawmakers like State Senator Bruce Tarr working feverishly to prevent them.
    Paul Burton, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • As Major League Baseball’s Rays make their latest fitful pursuit to build a new Tampa Bay home, an Orlando group is feverishly working to develop a fanbase, win political support, and perhaps gain a chunk of tourism dollars for a ballpark in the event opportunity comes its way.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
Adverb
  • Those misses rarely occurred in season two, but three episodes into this season, the bat is flying wildly around the stadium, bonking people in the head in a freak mass-casualty bat-event.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • The good news is that right now, only the looming IPOs of Anthropic, which will be wildly oversubscribed, and OpenAI, which will be far more tepid, stand in the way of the next run for the market, as the coffers seem to be replenishing.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 June 2026
Adverb
  • 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
  • Their conversation bounced around frenetically, as their conversations tended to do.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • 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
  • By 1877, the hope for Black equality met an enfeebled federal government that essentially permitted Jim Crow to run amok.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Adverb
  • This is why couples who prioritize trust, companionship and emotional responsiveness — every day, no matter what — are the ones who still seem madly in love decades later, even when youth and novelty has long since faded.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • And all the while underlings scrambled madly for a correct number.
    Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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