inadvertency

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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

By some strange inadvertency, however, Mr. Chaplin's eccentric person was missing from the screen.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry

If I have happened to mistake through inadvertency, I entreat he will condescend to inform me, and point out the place, upon which I will immediately beg pardon both of him and the world.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

Always indicative of character, habit may yet, to a certain extent, do us the greatest injustice, through mere inadvertency.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

Being pursued vindictively, he became too indignant to give the obvious explanation of the inadvertency of his denial of his signature.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob