unbidden
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Like Golitsyn, Lyalin was also a “walk-in”: a Soviet agent who offered himself up, unbidden, to MI5.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Images from that novel come to me unbidden when I’m alone making ramen, leaning into a cold wind or calming down my hypervigilant Doberman mutt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
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
Ekon closed his eyes and clasped his hands together, The images came unbidden; he expected them to, but he tried not to look away from them.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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