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inadvertently

adverb as in carelessly

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adverb as in unintentionally

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Systemic problems, including low wages, mean that many nursing homes are still relying on contract employees to fill shifts, inadvertently enabling the spread of the virus.

As the nation’s death toll since the start of the pandemic reached 250,000, officials spoke of the risks in stark terms, warning that as friends and relatives get together over the holidays, they could inadvertently bring the coronavirus with them.

By failing to swiftly vaccinate the world’s billions of young people, and allowing them to become infected, we could inadvertently nurture a new pandemic.

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An interstellar ark transporting the last humans on Earth to a new home inadvertently brings along a shape-shifting alien stowaway in Breach, a new sci-fi action film starring Bruce Willis and directed by John Suits.

Hill is one of the most famous climbers of all time, yet somehow, this easily fact-checkable milestone was inadvertently erased by many major news outlets around the world last weekend.

In its attempt to discredit the story, the JPO inadvertently confirmed that fact.

Do you worry about glorifying war, even inadvertently, by depicting it as something sacrosanct?

Minutes into the rerelease of Grand Theft Auto V, I inadvertently stomped a cat to death.

Katniss walks through mountains of skeletons, at one point recoiling in horror as she inadvertently steps on a skull.

But she had no way to know for sure until August, when a legal filing was inadvertently made public by a federal court.

She turned her gaze away from the mirror, and saw Sarah's grey head inadvertently nodding, as it always nodded.

She did not know why she put on the Mr. It came inadvertently, but was the most fortunate thing she could have done.

Assuming that the reverend gentleman was inadvertently buried alive, we deprecate this delay.

Here, therefore, I seek but to bring back to your memory what livelier sensations have inadvertently driven from it.

Inadvertently turning a hatch upside down, is considered an unfavourable sign.

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

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