uncontrollably

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Recent Examples of uncontrollably Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026 Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2026 Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026 Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • 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
  • And still, crazily enough, there are occasional firsts.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Imagine the ribs are a bottle and the mucus is the ketchup desperately clinging to its sides, Welsh says.
    Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • When Holloway pulled the puck back to his forehand to finish into the empty net, he was robbed by Morrissey, who had slid desperately to his left like a street hockey goalie to make a shocking stick save.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Then seconds later the controller frantically called for the fire truck to stop.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • In the hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside the bedroom of his mountaintop home, an inner circle of people suspected of being involved in the assassination plot in South Florida and in Port-au-Prince were frantically trying to steer events in their favor.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • The dramatic shift in tenor came as intermediaries led by Pakistan worked feverishly to head off a further escalation.
    Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The dramatic shift in tenor came as intermediaries, led by Pakistan, worked feverishly to head off a further escalation of the conflict.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Still, both stocks have swung wildly, rising and falling by double-digit percentages in single sessions.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Quentin Tarantino’s outrageous revisionist Western is wildly over-the-top, combining the director’s penchant for gratuitous violence and sparkling dialogue with a story that’s pleasingly labyrinthine but nothing if not schlocky.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Their conversation bounced around frenetically, as their conversations tended to do.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • But occasionally things run amok (though often by design, in fairness).
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Another video shows a group of hooded teens running amok throughout the shopping plaza, throwing punches and fleeing from police as authorities attempted to restore order, according to video obtained by WTMJ.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Hal and Lois are still madly in love, and Lois is planning a huge soiree to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
    Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Trading in Hamptons summers for new adventures, Danielle Olivera is madly in love with Eoin Heavey, and their whirlwind romance is moving at lightning speed.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.

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