accidental

It was only after a long game of telephone that Armstrong’s accidental opportunity became clear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

It marks them as a priority for targeted surveys that go looking rather than waiting for the next accidental catch.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Officials in South Carolina announced Wednesday that an investigation found Hayden Panettiere’s Aug. 16 death to be accidental and the case is now closed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s not irrelevant or accidental that the call, as they say in horror movies, is coming from inside the house.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

You have Blackwood’s old recording and scores, which look like familiar scores but have lots of odd accidentals in them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

This version needed to then be translated into conventional music using normal accidentals.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Humans have long marveled at such exotic stragglers — which experts also refer to as waifs, rarities, extralimitals, casuals and accidentals — and what they suggest about the biological importance of wandering.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

In this year, which at home differed only in accidentals from other prosperous peacetime years, the U.S. also held an election.

From Time Magazine Archive

But some care must be taken to correctly transpose accidentals.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones