unbidden
Example Sentences
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Her focus is the life stage she dubs “the Final Fifth” that begins at age 80, and her subject is the unbidden changes—physical, social, even existential—those years can bring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
It all came back unbidden, she said, as she was playing with her own daughter.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
Getting a Doan's Bundt cake from Cruise unbidden reinforces the recipient’s high-level social status.
From Salon • May 7, 2024
A.I. isn’t pumping this weird stuff out unbidden.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
She tried not to think of them too often, yet sometimes the memories came unbidden, and then it was hard to hold back the tears.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
