as in rampant
showing no signs of being under control
a tirade filled with uncontrolled anger about what the government was doing
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Sudden immersion in such frigid water, known as cold shock, can trigger immediate physiological responses such as uncontrolled gasping, rapid breathing or hyperventilation, according to the National Weather Service.
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Rebekah Riess, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
Keep your fingers crossed as this uncontrolled experiment is getting bigger each passing day.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Individuals with uncontrolled blood sugar, diabetes, or kidney issues should avoid adrenal cocktails due to their high sugar and potassium content.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
One is the prospect that uncontrolled diffusion of advanced AI could empower the world’s most dangerous state and nonstate actors, and potentially rogue autonomous AI systems themselves, to develop catastrophic cyber- and bioweapons or unleash other existential national security threats.
—Colin H. Kahl, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
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Rebekah Riess, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
Keep your fingers crossed as this uncontrolled experiment is getting bigger each passing day.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Individuals with uncontrolled blood sugar, diabetes, or kidney issues should avoid adrenal cocktails due to their high sugar and potassium content.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
One is the prospect that uncontrolled diffusion of advanced AI could empower the world’s most dangerous state and nonstate actors, and potentially rogue autonomous AI systems themselves, to develop catastrophic cyber- and bioweapons or unleash other existential national security threats.
—Colin H. Kahl, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Uncontrolled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncontrolled. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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