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accident

noun as in unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious

noun as in chance event

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Harvey, from Shrewsbury, who died alongside three friends in a car accident near Garreg, Gwynedd, was a passionate guitarist.

From BBC

Following the accident, a JustGiving page was set up for the families.

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Mastin’s story is a powerful one: She became a widow at age 27 when her husband — whom she’d married right out of high school — died as the result of a workplace accident.

Another accident, at the Fukushima Daichi plant in Japan in 2011, re-energised concerns about nuclear safety.

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In September, Microsoft signed a 20-year deal to buy power from Constellation Energy, which will lead to the reopening of the infamous Three Mile Island power station in Pennsylvania – the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, where a reactor suffered a partial meltdown in 1979.

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

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