spontaneously

Example Sentences

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In my mid-20s, I began breaking out in hives spontaneously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Mr. Fountain imagines that the U.S. has been overrun by a weird medical epidemic known as the Weeps, which causes people to spontaneously break into tears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

But others made spontaneously to prison guards were deemed admissible.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

In the 1980s, researchers began developing theories in which wavefunction collapse happens spontaneously, without requiring observation or measurement.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

Over the next years, as the vigorous Oenothera multiplied, de Vries found that eight hundred new variants had spontaneously arisen—plants with gigantic leaves, with hairy stems, or with odd-shaped flowers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee