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spontaneous English

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spontaneous

If something is spontaneous, it happens without any outside cause; nothing else makes it happen. He made a spontaneous offer to help the old lady cross the street. If something is spontaneous, it is random. If something is spontaneous, it happens suddenly; it happens without any warning. If someone does something in a spontaneous way, it is done of their own free will or without making any plan to do so. If something is spontaneous, it was made without being planted by humans; it is indigenous.

spontaneous

happening or arising without apparent external cause spontaneous laughter spontaneous combustion a spontaneous abortion (= ad-lib) said or done without having been planned or written in advance he made a few ad-lib remarks

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Simple sentences

The astronauts were greeted with spontaneous applause.
We're spontaneous.
Due to injury to the cervix during dilation used in some abortions, your next baby may have a low birth weight or you may be more likely to have a spontaneous abortion in later pregnancies.

Movie subtitles

If there's anything I love, it's a spontaneous compliment.
In case anyone hollered back, he organized spontaneous slugging.
Well, with this remarkable discovery, we have succeeded in creating spontaneous reproduction of cells. we can rebuild cells which have been destroyed.we have tamed the monster which once devoured us and made it serve our own ends!
Are you kidding me? It's so romantic. - So spontaneous!
Of all these crimes, the accused has made a full, spontaneous confession.
Your actions were spontaneous.
And even more important, spontaneous!
That was a spontaneous gesture.
Don't everybody. burst into spontaneous applause on this!
Of yours spontaneous volonta' you are come To offer me a part of your body.
This brutal, like other primates living unselfconscious lives, is capable of spontaneous and reflexive erection.
Now the letters I really like are spontaneous. with spelling errors. badly written letters often mean the most.
It was a spontaneous decision, after I heard that Mr. Ensslin had been turned down for certain reasons.
I listened keenly and with a critical ear to my parents' first spontaneous reactions.
A spontaneous uprising is doomed to failure!
Now, Mr. Brandon, don't be too spontaneous.
Spontaneous combustion.
Thank you for your spontaneous visit, but I don't see how it helps.
You seem to believe in spontaneous generation.
All words are spontaneous.
Their growth is spontaneous.
I wanted this part to be completely spontaneous and sort of unrehearsed.
But the demonstrations must look spontaneous.
No, Jim. I think it'll be more convincing if it's spontaneous.
However, in a very small percentage of these cases there is spontaneous repair of the damaged tissue.
You too, for a change, seemed spontaneous in your gesture.
Why, thank you. If there's anything I love, it's a spontaneous compliment like that.
And, spontaneous demonstrations of that faith took place. From the churches, they moved on the jails. The fortresses.
You've been spontaneous, you have!
It's spontaneity that counts today, and you're spontaneous!
Very spontaneous!
This can't be spontaneous!
I like you for being so spontaneous, my love but no more kisses and watch the hair!
Anything, as long as It looks spontaneous.
If we don't find that script, Ted goes in there spontaneous and unrehearsed.
And even more important, spontaneous! - And also, voluntary.
It's purely spontaneous, and remains individualistic but he's the one who beats up the boss.
For me, everything has to be spontaneous Natural, like flowers.
Take Pasteur, who accepted miracles,.but not spontaneous generation.

News and current affairs

To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti-regime activities.
The chemical inhibitors used in this treatment target the enzyme polymerase (PARP1), which is normally involved in the repair of DNA single-strand breaks - a common form of spontaneous DNA lesions.
Chinese cynicism and spontaneous selfishness, however, is now tempered by what they perceive as growing recognition of their unique status.
A wounded America appreciated the spontaneous demonstrations of sympathy and solidarity that poured across the Atlantic after September 11 th.
It was also known to Galileo, who noted that Renaissance engineers who followed successful methods of building ships and moving obelisks were often surprised by the spontaneous failures when tried with larger ships and obelisks.
Individuals and private organizations - including WikiLeaks, multinational corporations, NGOs, terrorists, or spontaneous social movements - have been empowered to play a direct role.
In hindsight, it was a mistake to believe in the euro's spontaneous community-creating power.
For Thatcher, as for Hayek, the great intellectual error of the twentieth century was the belief that the state could improve on the spontaneous efforts of individuals.
America's subsequent patronage of Israel had less to do with evangelical passion for the Holy Land, or a spontaneous love for the Jewish people, than with the Cold War.
LONDON - At the start of the Industrial Revolution, textile workers in the Midlands and the North of England, mainly weavers, staged a spontaneous revolt, smashing machinery and burning factories.
For years human rights activists and scholars suspected the obvious: the emergence of an enormous, vicious, well-armed, and well-trained parallel army to fight the guerillas was not some spontaneous act.
Thus the government has no appropriate means of dealing with the recent increases in spontaneous demonstrations by laid-off urban workers or impoverished farmers, let alone dissatisfied religious sects.
For maintaining a constitutional order and viable free market requires an intuitive dislike of arbitrariness, a sensitivity to its manifestations, and spontaneous resistance.
Tumor suppressor genes can be disabled by mutation, or by spontaneous loss during cell division.
There was no way to prove whether the Russian government, a spontaneous nationalist response, or both aided this transnational attack.
The rage, it seems, is not spontaneous; rather, it is an artifact of local or regional politics.
Spontaneous protests erupted in front of police headquarters, but the police did not intervene.
When the final whistle sounded on a 1-0 victory for Japan, the crowd, infuriated, burst into spontaneous pogroms and beatings.
Most ominous for Myanmar's future, given that all genocides are linked to official action, this racial and religious antagonism is in no way spontaneous.
There would be thousands of spontaneous abortions and more than 300,000 later cancers.
Moreover, the way ordinary Chinese rallied to help victims of the earthquake in Sichuan has been quite remarkable, as have been the spontaneous efforts of people in Burma to assist their fellow citizens, even as the military did very little.
It will not involve the harnessing of power on a deliberate basis, but rather the harnessing on a spontaneous basis of the exploding scientific abilities to improve, to transform, to create the human person.
Because the remodeling of neurons by stress is reversible, researchers now believe that chronic anxiety disorders and depression represent a lack of resilience, or spontaneous recovery, in susceptible individuals.
China's senior leaders always closely monitor spontaneous public expressions of nationalist fervor, fearful that shifting winds might blow an unwelcome storm in their direction.

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