inadvertency
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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Vices of adoption are of all others the most unpardonable, for they have not inadvertency to plead.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
I am conscious 57 of my inadvertency, and that the reproof is just.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield
Persia, Syria, Arabia, parts of Turkey, and the Barbary coast, have been rendered arid deserts by this inadvertency.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips
Either he has overlooked it, through inadvertency: or he has omitted it, as not perceiving its force and bearing on the question: or he has disingenuously kept it back.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, in our era of carefully crafted images, these electronic inadvertencies and other unmasked asides carried out of the White House by listeners form a valuable body of presidential lore.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not suppose the passage corrupt: such inadvertencies neither author nor editor can escape.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
And yet he would sometimes be civil, hoping to cheat me into inadvertencies.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
She still utters inadvertencies now and then, commits new errors at odd times, but never repeats them when exposed.
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
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