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unprompted

British  
/ ʌnˈprɒmptɪd /

adjective

  1. without prompting; spontaneous

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Police had visited Warren's house a week before, where he made several unprompted comments about his XL bullies.

From BBC

"Look the cold weather is a thing, right," Stevanovic said unprompted afterwards.

From BBC

The client said the conversation was unprompted and happened in front of his line manager who did nothing to stop him, describing their behaviour as "disgusting," in court documents.

From BBC

Three midlevel Iranian government officials, reached over the past week to discuss other issues, brought up unprompted that they privately longed for the return of the Pahlavis.

From The Wall Street Journal

Last November, Donaldson wrote on X—unprompted—apologizing to viewers that his latest YouTube videos weren’t meeting his bar for entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal

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