as in accidental
happening by chance
an inadvertent encounter with a rattlesnake in the brush
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That was the Malachi Flynn team of 2019-20 that went 30-2 before the NCAA Tournament was scrapped because of the pandemic (and also had a 17-2 run when Nevada’s only basket was an inadvertent tip-in by an Aztecs player).
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
Filmmaker Cabrera belatedly discovers in her latest feature that Chris Marker’s 1962 sci-fi photomontage La Jetée, made the same year that Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule, might also be an inadvertent historical document of her own family.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
Sometimes, a mistake is inadvertent, with the agent just repeating what they were told.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
Some responded that the language had been inadvertent or outdated.
—Katie J.m. Baker, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
Filmmaker Cabrera belatedly discovers in her latest feature that Chris Marker’s 1962 sci-fi photomontage La Jetée, made the same year that Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule, might also be an inadvertent historical document of her own family.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
Sometimes, a mistake is inadvertent, with the agent just repeating what they were told.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
Some responded that the language had been inadvertent or outdated.
—Katie J.m. Baker, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Inadvertent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inadvertent. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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