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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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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.
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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
Some users, when confronted by Guy’s unbidden tweets in their timelines, chose to attack him or mock him to their followers, tagging him in.
—WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
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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
Some users, when confronted by Guy’s unbidden tweets in their timelines, chose to attack him or mock him to their followers, tagging him in.
—WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
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“Unbidden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbidden. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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