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accident

noun as in unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious

noun as in chance event

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Speaking from the scene of the accident, Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said that while most of those hurt suffered only minor injuries, 11 people had been taken to hospital in Bratislava.

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A fatal accident inquiry will be held in due course.

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The "freak accident... happened so quickly", she said.

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The accident shook him mentally and physically but he began to pick up the pieces this year.

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A few days after the star singer Forrest Frank fell off his skateboard, crashed into a wall and fractured two vertebrae, he previewed a new track about the accident on TikTok.

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

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