unbidden

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No masterpiece arises unbidden and unprecedented from the mind of its creator, although popular mythology prefers this interpretation to the more complex reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

It all came back unbidden, she said, as she was playing with her own daughter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Lyrical scraps would flash unbidden, like hallucinations, in the decades to follow.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2024

"Those with the syndrome experience frequent unbidden intrusive memories of the traumatic event."

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2023

Then looking around he caught sight of the strangers, and cried out in a dreadful booming voice, “Who are you who enter unbidden the house of Polyphemus? Traders or thieving pirates?”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton