inadvertency
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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
By some peculiar inadvertency, as he was in the middle of one of his own adventures, his finger touched the burglar alarm.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
He remained, therefore, continually shut up in his laboratory, watching his furnace; for a moment's inadvertency might once more defeat all his expectations.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington
General Taylor, by an inadvertency strange to pass to a second edition, is represented as putting down the South-Carolina Nullifiers in 1838.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
By some strange inadvertency, however, Mr. Chaplin's eccentric person was missing from the screen.
From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry
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
I do not suppose the passage corrupt: such inadvertencies neither author nor editor can escape.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
Good use is decided by the prevailing usage of the writers whose works make up permanent English literature, not by their inadvertencies.
From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray
She still utters inadvertencies now and then, commits new errors at odd times, but never repeats them when exposed.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
