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thoughts that come to the mind unbidden
she arrived, unbidden, to help out at the Red Cross center
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Standards from every period of our lives remain cross-indexed in our brains to be called up in whole, or in part, or, in fact, to come to mind unbidden.
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E.l. Doctorow, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Every screen suddenly has a logo either urging the user to try an A.I. service or signaling that an A.I. product has been delivered unbidden.
—Tom Scocca, airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024
Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test seems to be about a temporary loss of hearing but is actually one woman’s rehearsal for the losses that come, unbidden, for us all.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2024
The surprise, unbidden possibility of victory endowed Harris with a mystique.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 7 Sep. 2024
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E.l. Doctorow, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Every screen suddenly has a logo either urging the user to try an A.I. service or signaling that an A.I. product has been delivered unbidden.
—Tom Scocca, airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024
Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test seems to be about a temporary loss of hearing but is actually one woman’s rehearsal for the losses that come, unbidden, for us all.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2024
The surprise, unbidden possibility of victory endowed Harris with a mystique.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Unbidden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbidden. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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unbidden
adjective
un·bid·den
ˌən-ˈbid-ᵊn 
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