as in accidental
happening by chance
an inadvertent encounter with a rattlesnake in the brush
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Recent Examples of inadvertent
But an inadvertent mistake can have huge consequences.
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Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
In addition to hats, hosiery, and purses, in the 1950s a woman’s gloves helped avoid inadvertent intimacy with men.
—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
Matos was injured during an inadvertent collision with a teammate.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
The homeowners, meanwhile, are locked in a separate case with Ocean over what Peck said was an inadvertent naming error in filing the 2017 assignment of rights.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
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Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
In addition to hats, hosiery, and purses, in the 1950s a woman’s gloves helped avoid inadvertent intimacy with men.
—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
Matos was injured during an inadvertent collision with a teammate.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
The homeowners, meanwhile, are locked in a separate case with Ocean over what Peck said was an inadvertent naming error in filing the 2017 assignment of rights.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inadvertent
accidental
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Police determined the injury was accidental and not child abuse.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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The sound does much of the work in action sequences obscured by blinding snowstorms and flashing emergency lights, punctuated by creative acts of accidental self-harm that save our protagonists from certain death more than once.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Inadvertent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inadvertent. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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