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spontaneously

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


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The group, according to Burke, spontaneously began chanting an exuberant Australian cheer: “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, oi, oi!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"We see how loyal they are, how passionate they are, the tattoos and all kinds of things that that have been going on spontaneously, not because of promotion or marketing."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

The project is designed to look for an extremely rare event in which muonium, a short lived system made of a positive muon bound to an electron, spontaneously transforms into antimuonium, its antimatter counterpart.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

The committed band of Minneapolis residents organized spontaneously, defying the deep-freeze conditions to confront the operation that has ensnared longtime city residents.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

It seemed that the vims could adapt quickly to new hosts, and that it could change its character spontaneously and rapidly as it entered a new population.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston