as in spontaneous
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Recent Examples of unprompted
Following the 79-52 win over San Jose State, Cardenas took a minute, unprompted, to praise Ugbo’s work behind the scenes — just minutes before their World Cup argument.
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Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 18 Feb. 2025
How strange that a feeling can grow unprompted, from nothing, surprising even your own heart.
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
Al Horford gave his fellow big man an unprompted shoutout after the Celtics routed the Miami Heat 103-85 on Monday night, saying Kornet’s contributions have been vital to the team’s recent success.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
Weeks later, Zuckerberg criticized the Biden administration over COVID social media crackdowns in a seemingly unprompted letter to GOP lawmakers.
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2025
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Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 18 Feb. 2025
How strange that a feeling can grow unprompted, from nothing, surprising even your own heart.
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
Al Horford gave his fellow big man an unprompted shoutout after the Celtics routed the Miami Heat 103-85 on Monday night, saying Kornet’s contributions have been vital to the team’s recent success.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
Weeks later, Zuckerberg criticized the Biden administration over COVID social media crackdowns in a seemingly unprompted letter to GOP lawmakers.
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprompted
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Few inspire spontaneous ovations in public places, like the one U.S. Rep. John Larson received last month at Bradley airport.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2025
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The Women’s March was highly organized and concentrated, while the protests in June 2020 were largely spontaneous and spread out.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This show should finally set the record straight: here is an American visionary whose obsessive paintings are at once stylized and crudely instinctive, achieving a kind of cryptic simplicity that might be called folk surrealism.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Another instinctive reaction to tariff announcements is shifting sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States.—
Jim DeLoach,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Request an automatic extension while filing through IRS Free File. File Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return by mail, through an e-filing option or with a tax professional.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Many of these duties are automatic, such as confidentiality between professionals (e.g. doctors, lawyers and accountant and their clients).—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Unprompted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprompted. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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