accidental

An Army officer's accidental death during a training exercise was contributed to by "flawed" training and a faulty alarm system, a coroner has concluded.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The reasons sub-Saharan Africa suffers such disproportionate harm are structural rather than accidental.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

It’s not irrelevant or accidental that the call, as they say in horror movies, is coming from inside the house.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

He had been white-knuckling it in a 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5 for about 600 miles before our accidental rendezvous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Felt-tip markers are less likely to cause injury, either intentional or accidental.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

You have Blackwood’s old recording and scores, which look like familiar scores but have lots of odd accidentals in them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

This version needed to then be translated into conventional music using normal accidentals.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Humans have long marveled at such exotic stragglers — which experts also refer to as waifs, rarities, extralimitals, casuals and accidentals — and what they suggest about the biological importance of wandering.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

In this year, which at home differed only in accidentals from other prosperous peacetime years, the U.S. also held an election.

From Time Magazine Archive

Figure 1.19: When a sharp sign appears in the C space in the key signature, all C's are sharp unless marked as accidentals.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones