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spontaneously
[ spon-tey-nee-uhs-lee ]
adverb
- 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.
- in an impulsive way:
It was so cold the other night that I spontaneously booked a trip to Turks and Caicos.
- 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
- ԴDz·Dz·ٲ·Ա·dzܲ· adverb
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- ܲ·Dz·ٲ·Ա·dzܲ· adverb
- ܲ·Dz·ٲ·Ա·dzܲ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of spontaneously1
Example Sentences
A local festival not far from Shahid Rajee Port that was supposed to be a celebration spontaneously turned into a solemn occasion for remembering the dead and praying for the injured.
But some of the massive, velvety echinoderms began the spawning process spontaneously — three days before the group would arrive.
"We were sitting in my living room, reading the Bible," she said, and spontaneously decided to "hit record and started talking."
He would make decisions spontaneously, in private, preferring to take advice from the friends he went drinking with, Kim said.
Mr Harris said he acted spontaneously to capture the bird on Thursday morning.
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