unprompted
Example Sentences
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"The underreported symptoms are leads that came from patients themselves, unprompted, and clinicians could potentially pay attention to them."
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
After summoning the White House press pool, Trump strode to a podium bearing the presidential seal and, unprompted, declared that the “lies” linking her to Jeffrey Epstein had to end.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
Three midlevel Iranian government officials, reached over the past week to discuss other issues, brought up unprompted that they privately longed for the return of the Pahlavis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
“It was the perfect way to do it. Just have everybody out there, running around … It was unplanned, unprompted, but a great memory.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
The stories that Vivian began to tell only with prodding, in dutiful answer to specific questions, are spilling forth unprompted, one after another, so many that even Vivian seems surprised.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
