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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, 10 Jan. 2026 Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads. Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026 Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026 There is always a chance the stem cells could grow uncontrollably, crowding out native cells and damaging the brain. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollably
Adverb
  • Granted, by the time the Jet Skis are swinging crazily in the air, Nathan has only been onboard for a few hours.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Coon’s Agnes is a broken woman desperately looking for companionship following the devastating loss of her son and the physical and emotional violence inflicted on her by her ex-husband.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This franchise desperately needs elite talent, and the best chance of securing that is by tanking for as high a draft pick as possible.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • The phone logs show Goudreau frantically trying to get Denman and Berry out safely.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • When Marissa runs through her house, frantically searching for Milo, the scene doubles as a tour of the Irvines’ palatial lakefront home as captured by directors Minkie Spiro and Kate Dennis.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Inside Friendly Arctic, a local printing shop, circular machines with long metal branches spin feverishly.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The new flick’s trailer shows Pierre’s hands feverishly sketching the 2025 inauguration night gown.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • Song Sung Blue is very much a two-hander, exploring the real-life romantic and professional pairing of Mike and Claire Sardina (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson), entertainers who teamed up to form the wildly popular Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning and Thunder.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Les Baux-de-Provence Built into a rocky outcropping that's part of the Alpilles mountain chain, Les Baux-de-Provence has a rugged and wildly impressive setting.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
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
  • Producers Mufasa and Yvng Gucci seamlessly pull off morphing the skittering drums of a somewhat generic UK drill beat into a thudding bouyon rhythm for Guadeloupean trio HollyG to run amok over.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
  • One of the company’s biggest, Guillermo del Toro, has been vehemently opposed to the tech, and his new film Frankenstein, currently in theaters and on Netflix next month, even plays as a cautionary tale about the dangers of letting technological progress run amok.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • No, these are for the space fans who are madly obsessed with the universe.
    Grace Dean, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Democrats don’t want to rush madly to sign the petitions, which might create appearances that the effort was being led solely by Democrats rather than the bipartisan coalitions that have championed the discharge campaigns.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 15 Dec. 2025

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“Uncontrollably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollably. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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