accidental

Fire officials said that blaze appeared to have been accidental.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Research has shown that fathers, especially men in their 20s through early 40s, are disproportionately affected by preventable causes of death including suicide, overdose, homicide and accidental injury.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Their goal is to scare the pigeons off; fatal incidents are typically accidental.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The majority of student insurance claims are the result of theft, ahead of accidental damage, according to Aviva.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Just as Olmsted sought to conjure an aura of mystery in his landscape, so here he urged the engineering of seemingly accidental moments of charm.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

Pitches that are not in the key signature are called accidentals.

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