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also unbid
as in unwanted
not searched or asked for
she arrived, unbidden, to help out at the Red Cross center
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Recent Examples of unbidden
After dessert, Caro went unbidden to the kitchen, returning with a thermal carafe of hot water and a brown jar of Nescafé.
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Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
And like Peter Falk’s immortal gumshoe, Elsbeth — who will insert herself unbidden into an investigation — asks a lot of questions, some merely out of curiosity.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Haley is the only female candidate in the G.O.P. primary, a fact that many voters in New Hampshire told me, unbidden, they were drawn to.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
What is so remarkable here is that hundreds of readers had civil discourse unbidden.
—Cquinn, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
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Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
And like Peter Falk’s immortal gumshoe, Elsbeth — who will insert herself unbidden into an investigation — asks a lot of questions, some merely out of curiosity.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Haley is the only female candidate in the G.O.P. primary, a fact that many voters in New Hampshire told me, unbidden, they were drawn to.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
What is so remarkable here is that hundreds of readers had civil discourse unbidden.
—Cquinn, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbidden
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Six in 10 respondents had experienced unwanted and/or inappropriate touching, hugging or kissing from colleagues.Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2024
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This plan aims to educate fishers about the new regulations and teach them how to safely release unwanted or protected catch.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Rangers: After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last year, the Rangers viewed a conference final loss to the eventual champions as an unacceptable result.Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Given how much aid the United States has already provided to Ukraine, there is not much room for Washington to expand the flow of arms quantitatively, and further qualitative increases would entail unacceptable escalation risks.Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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There have been few depictions of Dracula as a true weirdo — a guy who lurks in the corner and makes unsolicited comments about the beauty of Harker’s wife’s neck — but Schreck’s portrayal of Dracula as a wealthy foreign invader is essential to the cinematic history of the count.Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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Receiving this unsolicited advice and promptly ignoring it seems to be a universal experience.Frank Harvey, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Find a quiet place, keep your workspace tidy and remove unnecessary items.Daniel Wendt, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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And sending the same team on the road back-to-back Christmases feels wholly unnecessary, too.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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But when his uninvited relatives show up and start adding eyeballs to the mashed potatoes and maggots to the pumpkin pie, there are suddenly too many creeps in the kitchen.Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Says the man who is standing — uninvited — in the middle of my living room.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Every unasked question, every idea left unspoken, every risk avoided—those are all missed chances for growth.Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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These questions are left unasked in favor of broad, ponderous statements about good versus evil.Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 21 Nov. 2024
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Dering declined to comment Tuesday about how the media attention has impacted sales and the company, as well as the precariousness of navigating such unsought publicity.Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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On the 21st of April, only a third of the way through spring, our 88 degrees may have seemed thermal precocity, an unsought rush to summer.Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
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“Unbidden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbidden. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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