unintended

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Researchers also face difficulties delivering therapies precisely to target tissues while avoiding unintended damage to healthy organs.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

An SAI is any event or circumstance that led or could have led to unintended or unexpected harm, loss, or damage.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The TV Dinner was an early, if unintended, step toward our current world in which unblinking people can’t look away from the screens they carry everywhere, oblivious to what is going on around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

In California there have also been unintended impacts on other preschool providers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor