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Recent Examples of unsought Dering declined to comment Tuesday about how the media attention has impacted sales and the company, as well as the precariousness of navigating such unsought publicity. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 On the 21st of April, only a third of the way through spring, our 88 degrees may have seemed thermal precocity, an unsought rush to summer. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023 The Sugarplum Fairy, after an unsought interregnum, is presiding over the Land of Sweets at the New York City Ballet. Michael Paulson, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022 The federal ban on vaping on commercial flights, instituted in 2016, was meant to protect passengers from unsought exposure to aerosols. New York Times, 5 July 2022 What’s more, as Anna Della Subin explores in her bracingly original Accidental Gods, unsought divinity was a remarkably widespread phenomenon that spanned centuries and continents. Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021 The boy opened fire, shooting a 13-year-old classmate and a teacher — and putting Alexander in a small, unsought fraternity of innocent people who have survived two gun attacks. Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 10 June 2018 Sometimes the oddest unsought advice can be found in your doctor’s waiting room self-help magazines. Orange County Register, 4 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsought
Adjective
  • Mowing too little or too much can have adverse consequences for the health of the lawn and can also encourage unwanted plants to grow.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
  • Sellers can even leave the unwanted contents, saving time and expense.
    Archway Homes, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • For students placed on the waitlist, this isn’t the opportunity to inundate admission officers with unsolicited information.
    Kristen Moon, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Legitimate tech support will never demand unsolicited screen access; terminate the call immediately if pressured. 10.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • By adjusting power consumption dynamically, the tool could help reduce unnecessary background activity and extend battery life—especially during idle periods or when apps are not in active use.
    Tahar Rajab, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • And unlike species that evolved to shed unnecessary traits, the Greenland shark has kept its ability to see intact, even if it is modified for its shadowy world.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • Witnesses told the police that an uninvited guest arrived and was asked to leave.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 May 2025
  • Witnesses said the violence began when an uninvited guest showed up at the party, Cantu said.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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.
    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

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“Unsought.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsought. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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