by mistake
Example Sentences
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Well, dear reader, I took a break, too—from What’s News—to write about great innovations that were discovered by mistake.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
When these files were released, a number of things seemed to have been released by mistake.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
For more than an hour, Trump repeatedly called Greenland Iceland by mistake, while demanding it be turned over to him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
Amazon has apologised after an error meant it showed a child a 15-rated film by mistake when they had tried to watch a PG movie.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025
She knew that the mailman’s mule arrived only every two weeks, but she always waited for him, convinced that he was going to arrive on some other day by mistake.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
