unbidden
Example Sentences
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Her focus is the life stage she dubs “the Final Fifth” that begins at age 80, and her subject is the unbidden changes—physical, social, even existential—those years can bring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Getting a Doan’s Bundt cake from Cruise unbidden reinforces the recipient’s high-level social status.
From Salon • May 7, 2024
Lyrical scraps would flash unbidden, like hallucinations, in the decades to follow.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2024
“You fight hard, but at the end of the day you want to make sure you treat each other with respect,” said Hutchinson, who suggested Biden’s unbidden apology reflected “the good parts of American politics.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024
Harrison and Hoving and the other art experts who looked at the Getty kouros had powerful and sophisticated reactions to the statue, but didn’t they bubble up unbidden from their unconscious?
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
