accidental

“I think we’ve become accidental pilgrims,” I said as we pedaled our tandem bike near the southern coast of Shikoku island this spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

I think the fact that I’ve become a symbol for the women’s movement is somewhat accidental.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026

Their findings, published in Science Advances, indicate that eating insects was probably occasional and accidental in Europe, Central and East Asia, while it appears to have been more common in tropical regions and among Neanderthals.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

It wasn’t accidental how the Appalachian Trail became my family’s backbone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

There are also cases of chance or accidental contamination.

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