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accidentally

adjective as in by chance

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When he was a child, his aunt and uncle accidentally enrolled him in a Baptist boarding school in Kentucky, thinking it was a prestigious prep school.

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The fatal stabbing took place at Primrose Hill on 31 December 2023 after Harry accidentally bumped into another boy while "play-fighting" and practising high kicks, the jury was told.

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In Venice, Meals was equally moved when he accidentally came upon an obelisk marking the spot where, in April 1942, more than a thousand Japanese Americans boarded buses for Manzanar.

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During the operation, officials also accidentally killed a fifth wolf — a juvenile male that was mistaken for the breeding male due to its similar color and size.

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"We went into this study thinking, well, the one thing we know for sure is that there's no regulatory structure in mitosis, and then we accidentally found structure in mitosis," Hansen says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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