bidden

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When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2020

Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2014

One day Catholic Foch was bidden to luncheon by Atheist Clemenceau.

From Time Magazine Archive

A messenger arrives as bidden, with all the papers from London.

From Time Magazine Archive

Haldir had bidden them farewell and gone back again to the fences of the North, where great watch was now kept since the tidings of Moria that the Company had brought.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien