accidental

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"When I saw the footage, it was immediately clear that this was not accidental," Auersperg says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

Indian singer-composer Zubeen Garg's drowning last year in Singapore was accidental and there is no evidence of foul play, a coroner's inquiry has found.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

In Bernard’s telling, citizenship was not the product of “mere accidental birth,” but rather the “political condition” of the parents.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

The widowed farmer had, after all, witnessed the accidental death of his wife and child.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

She seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker