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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
  • Close the blinds and curtains on sun-facing windows to block the sun's rays and avoid unwanted heat.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 22 July 2025
  • Others who could leave in the coming weeks include Denmark defender Andreas Christensen, unwanted backup goalkeeper Inaki Pena, holding midfielder Oriol Romeu and last summer’s attacking signing Victor.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Oddly, the spreadsheet does not include the controversial $10 million political donation or its subsequent disbursement in the form of two unsolicited $5 million grants.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • Port staff and an outside real estate consultant firm have discussed the unsolicited Pangaea proposal continuously since the original submission, the records show.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • From sky-high heels and stiff business attire to bulky belts and even barefoot passengers (yes, that happens), these in-flight missteps can lead to unnecessary discomfort—or worse, a hygiene horror story.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2025
  • Simple but crucial resilience improvements — such as raising street levels to prevent flooding or installing solar panels — face cumbersome and unnecessary review.
    Richard Buery, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Though Dean Spanos and family, uninvited, were trundling into Greater L.A.’s crowded sports market like Cousin Eddie showing up in a rickety RV, the immense population of Los Angeles afforded the team large margins for error at the gate and in TV ratings.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • There’s Amelia, an old money widow who brings her uninvited boyfriend to the reunion; Jamie, a cardiologist with a bad habit; Sunny, the carefree member of the group and Beth, whose daughter is engaged to Roxy’s son.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • The answer comes to her unbidden — as Polly One (Exarchopoulos) leans over the bar, Jess sees the name FELIX tramp-stamped on her back.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 July 2025
  • 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

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“Unsought.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsought. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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