by accident

Director Chris Sanders, who adapted the script from Peter Brown’s book, says he was hooked by “the journey of a robot, Roz, who becomes a mother quite by accident, and doesn’t have the programming for that. There’s a lot that I can relate to in that story. I think any parent can relate to that at some point. It’s a mother’s journey, and that’s unusual for an animated film.”

“Nobody believes that these cables were severed by accident,” Germany’s minister of defense, Boris Pistorius, told reporters ahead of a meeting of European security officials in Brussels.

For Friedman, he became a goalie almost by accident.

This isn’t a piece you stumble upon by accident.

It is not known if it got there by accident or through a prank by one of his colleagues.