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accident
noun as in unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious
Weak matches
noun as in chance event
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Example Sentences
Harvey, from Shrewsbury, who died alongside three friends in a car accident near Garreg, Gwynedd, was a passionate guitarist.
Following the accident, a JustGiving page was set up for the families.
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.
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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