inadvertency
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Leak Investigation 1 appears to have stemmed from mistake, inadvertency and laziness.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
It may be regarded as certain that most of the aberrations discoverable in Codexes of the Sacred Text have arisen in the first instance from the merest inadvertency of the scribes.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
But no word, no phrase, nothing even of all that he had left unsaid sprang up before his horrified eyes to choke him with a sense of inadequacy, or inadvertency, or trespass.
From Pearl of Pearl Island by John Oxenham
Most mistakes arose from inadvertency: many from unfortunate design.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
I am conscious 57 of my inadvertency, and that the reproof is just.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield
On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.
From Persuasion by Jane Austen
A voluminous miscellany, composed at various periods, cannot be exempt from slight inadvertencies.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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