spontaneously
Americanadverb
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naturally, without premeditation, prompting, or planning.
The author recounts how a fully-fledged exchange market economy emerged spontaneously in his POW camp.
These answers were given spontaneously to an open-ended question that did not offer response options.
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in an impulsive way.
It was so cold the other night that I spontaneously booked a trip to Turks and Caicos.
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by a natural process or from an internal force or cause.
A calf should normally stand spontaneously within 60–90 minutes of its birth.
The symptoms resolved spontaneously within 6 months of onset.
Other Word Forms
- nonspontaneously adverb
- semispontaneously adverb
- subspontaneously adverb
- unspontaneously adverb
Etymology
Origin of spontaneously
Example Sentences
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On June 4, 1850, just a few days after the Fox sisters’ arrival, Greeley spontaneously invited a friend and turned up at Barnum’s Hotel to investigate this new idea of spirit communication.
From Literature
He designs his gargantuan models spontaneously while working.
From Barron's
She’s still addicted to that guitar, spontaneously singing the melody over the phone.
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
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
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