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spontaneously

[spon-tay-nee-uhs-lee] / spɒnˈteɪ ni əs li /


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Some 29 percent spontaneously named an economic concern when asked what they wanted congressional candidates to discuss, a Pew survey in June found.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Sea turtles have been sighted laying eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach — the first known instance of a sea turtle of any species spontaneously nesting on the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The descriptions of those incidents listed in a federal database are harrowing: A Kia minivan’s sunroof spontaneously exploded on a Wisconsin highway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

After receiving prosthe6, however, the blind mice once again spontaneously favored dark areas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

So if people generally believe that mice are spontaneously generated in straw, then the task of the philosopher is to explain why this is so, not to question whether it is so.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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