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• a  happening or arising without apparent external cause
  spontaneous laughter
  spontaneous combustion
  a spontaneous abortion
• s  said or done without having been planned or written in advance

• The protests in Tibet were spontaneous, agrees legal expert Lobsang Sangay, but a violent uprising was inevitable.
• So for "the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics," Nambu shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics and wins selection to the PTI 100.
• We look at the players behind the 'spontaneous' protest that preceded the shutdown of Miami-Dade's recount.

• self-generated
• ad-lib
• unwritten

• induced

News & Articles

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• Iran’s New President Rowhani, Moderate or Fanatic?
  Iran’s new President, Hassan Rowhani enjoyed a solid victory over the weekend in the Iranian elections. He beat the other Presidential candidates and displaced outgoing extremest leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The victory of Iran’s new President led to massive, spontaneous celebrations on the streets of Tehran, the capital of Iran. The daily camera reports that chants of... Read more » Iran’s New ...
  June 16, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Language as Action
  Being a type of spontaneous order, it is no surprise that language is subject to the same kinds of centrally-planned disruptions as economic systems, Rothbard notes: "The system of compulsory state education has been used as a terrible weapon in the hands of governments to impose certain languages and to destroy the languages of various national and linguistic groups within their borders."
  June 14, 2013 - Ludwig von Mises Institute
• 40 Early Twitter Reactions To Kanye West's 'Yeezus'
  Yeezus has sprung a leak, which means Twitter is running rampant with early POVs. From debuting songs on infrastructures to hosting a spontaneous listening party in different cities, the marketing strategy for Kanye West's sixth solo album has made it even more anticipated.
  June 14, 2013 - Vibe Magazine

Quotes

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• Vicente del Bosque in The Associated Press
  I don't know what my reaction will be. These are spontaneous things, not prefabricated, and I take an enormous amount of satisfaction every time we score a goal,Del Bosque told The Associated Press. "I'm not much for showing external...
• Richard Levin in WCBS-TV New York
  I got involved in something I should have had no part of. I realize that I should have used better judgment and I regret not thinking things through before I made a spontaneous and ill-advised decision to let myself get involved with the people... Jessica Alba http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Alba&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFZfLS-ZLE57BQ6Psyn1sq4ATnM5g Popeater http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.popeater.com/movies/article/jessica-alba-shark-photo/521521&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNERgqu92f0aJEIt800oDGQZTQJpYg Jun 10, 2009 93419 124184 spontaneous Yale President Richard Levin called Le a model student for the Yale of the 21st century - a child of immigrants, raised in America, bright, accomplished, ambitious and disciplined, yet caring, loving and spontaneous."