SPONTANEOUSLY Definition & Meaning

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spontaneously

[ spon-tey-nee-uhs-lee ]

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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.
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.

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"We were sitting in my living room, reading the Bible," she said, and spontaneously decided to "hit record and started talking."

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He would make decisions spontaneously, in private, preferring to take advice from the friends he went drinking with, Kim said.

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Mr Harris said he acted spontaneously to capture the bird on Thursday morning.

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“I’m just going to be there with him, and then spontaneously he’s like, ‘I want to play ‘Ophelia,’ Dad — you come play with me.’

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He shared an embrace with Sir Keir Starmer outside No 10, where he was greeted with spontaneously cheering crowds, and met with King Charles for tea.

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