as in stubborn
given to resisting control or discipline by others
the uncontrollable child kept throwing tantrums in public and creating scenes
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Recent Examples of uncontrollable
Cannabis gave me back some control during a largely uncontrollable period in my life.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 June 2026
In place of the ancient forest was a shorn land besieged by uncontrollable wildfires, prone to land-slides and erosion.
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Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
There are many uncontrollable factors such as settling into a new environment, family issues and injuries, how fast a player adapts, how their pathway can become blocked by the emergence of others in their position, and different coaches having different opinions of players.
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Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease eight years ago, a neurological disorder that damages brain cells, leading to symptoms like uncontrollable movements, tremors, and balance issues.
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Madeline Montgomery,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for uncontrollable
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 June 2026
In place of the ancient forest was a shorn land besieged by uncontrollable wildfires, prone to land-slides and erosion.
—
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
There are many uncontrollable factors such as settling into a new environment, family issues and injuries, how fast a player adapts, how their pathway can become blocked by the emergence of others in their position, and different coaches having different opinions of players.
—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease eight years ago, a neurological disorder that damages brain cells, leading to symptoms like uncontrollable movements, tremors, and balance issues.
—
Madeline Montgomery,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for uncontrollable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontrollable
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The weather service’s forecast discussion for Kansas City said the stubborn heat could last through the Fourth of July.
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Against all odds, the stubborn housing market has become a hotspot for young talent.
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Continue contributing enough to capture any employer match, prioritize paying off high-rate debt and explore debt relief options if your balances have become unmanageable.
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Unkempt vines will continue to grow vigorously and become unmanageable.
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While founder control is cited for long-term vision, the piece suggests alternative models like steward-ownership could foster accountability without sacrificing strategic focus, urging regulators to adapt to this new era of concentrated, potentially ungovernable corporate power.
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The vampiric Goldman Sachs that Taibbi describes is an institution, a system that became too big to fail, and thus ungovernable.
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For as long as the American Dream has been around, homeownership was considered an intractable piece of the wealth-building puzzle.
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Two Ships is thus a narrative for our time, when the aspirational vision of oneness has given way to intractable twoness.
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Several North Lake Tahoe beaches will be closed Saturday evening during the July 4 holiday due to what law enforcement officials described as unruly crowds of visiting teenagers.
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Britain, arguably, decided to cut its losses with the unruly thirteen colonies to better safeguard its more lucrative possessions in the Caribbean and South Asia.
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In 2018, the IRS closed the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP), ending the formal disclosure program designed primarily for taxpayers with potential criminal exposure or willful violations relating to unreported offshore holdings.
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Federal law generally prohibits direct service connection for addiction classified as resulting from willful misconduct.
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For seven seasons, a hodgepodge crew mixing Starfleet and the rebellious Maquis put aside their differences after they got zapped 70,000 lightyears away from Earth, deep into the uncharted Delta Quadrant.
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This could bring about sudden ideas, or trigger rebellious impulses and creative imagination.
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What at first felt fun — like guiding a sweet wayward child — soon felt like a crazymaking psychological experiment.
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Power brings a warmer and more wayward sensibility to such material than, say, the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose deadpan grids of coal tipples and water towers drained industrial structures of affect.
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“Uncontrollable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrollable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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