no accident

idiom

: something done deliberately
It is no accident that the assistant he hired is so good-looking.

Examples of no accident in a Sentence

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“No accident.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20accident. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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