inadvertency
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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Now, it is extremely unlikely that there should have been two such instances of inadvertency in the author, or carelessness in the copyist.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
Mr. Norton truly grieved at his inadvertency in disturbing the household at this late hour of the night, begged pardon, and told Mrs. McNab he would not be guilty of a like offence.
From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Mrs. William T. Savage
Vossius has noticed the inadvertency or ignorance of Plautus in this drama, where, though the scene is laid in Epidaurus, he sends the parasite to Caria, and brings him back in four days.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
An error of no small magnitude, and which could not have been owing to inadvertency.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Indeed, in our era of carefully crafted images, these electronic inadvertencies and other unmasked asides carried out of the White House by listeners form a valuable body of presidential lore.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it was equally true that such inadvertencies slipped from us while laboriously engaged in determining a delicate competition between "John Dorée à l'Orléannaise" and "saumon à la Beyrout."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
And yet he would sometimes be civil, hoping to cheat me into inadvertencies.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
These are all-comprehensive, and are therefore the departments into which philosophy is divided, for the sole end of philosophy is to correct the inadvertencies of ordinary thinking.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
