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In its lawsuit filed in a federal court in Tennessee, the FTC joined states including Alabama, Arizona and New Jersey to allege “pervasive and systemic pricing inaccuracies, rather than isolated or accidental errors.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The reasons sub-Saharan Africa suffers such disproportionate harm are structural rather than accidental.

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 recent years the State of California has reported an average of more than 200 cases of accidental parathion poisoning annually.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

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

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

Figure 1.19: When a sharp sign appears in the C space in the key signature, all C's are sharp unless marked as accidentals.

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