by mistake

Example Sentences

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Well, dear reader, I took a break, too—from What’s News—to write about great innovations that were discovered by mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Microsoft has acknowledged an error causing its AI work assistant to access and summarise some users' confidential emails by mistake.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

When these files were released, a number of things seemed to have been released by mistake.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

For more than an hour, Trump repeatedly called Greenland Iceland by mistake, while demanding it be turned over to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

They were little tiny frogs, and Miss Farley, the town clerk, drank two or three of them off the top of the bubbler by mistake.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson