accidental discovery
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The accidental discovery resulted in Mr. Peper’s purchase of a small townhouse with a perfect view of the North Sea and fairway grass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
A: Your accidental discovery that magnesium helped prevent migraine headaches is confirmed in the medical literature.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
A while back, I was poring over papers of a renowned scientist at UC San Diego when suddenly, an accidental discovery.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
It began, as many great inventions do, with an accidental discovery.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023
That accidental discovery was the first of several developments that would allow two researchers from Spain and Sweden to discover that normal human cells have forty-six chromosomes.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
