Sentence examples for Accidental from inspiring English sources

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Accidental

adjective

Not essential; incidental, secondary.

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It was not just an accidental lack of interest in what was going on at Kincora but it was a deliberate cover-up," Long said.

It was far from a cynical attempt to cheat, any contact with the ball was clearly accidental and most people felt he deserved the benefit of the doubt.

The BBC press office's statement directly contradicted Khawaja's explanation of a prank, saying the accidental tweet had been linked to the training exercise.

Not to mention the accidental harm that panicked people can do to each other when crammed into confined spaces.

Attention was not called to it during the parliamentary process, which may not have been accidental.

"I remember how," she later said, "during the war, a bombing once led to the accidental unearthing of a carved Anglo-Norman capital in which the artificial colouring of the stone had somehow been preserved.

An accidental Grexit would be a leap into the unknown for everyone.

The group won a deal under which cuts in their emissions will be relaxed if a study shows next year that preventing accidental releases of oil would produce the same benefit.

Economists at Daiwa Capital Markets warned about the rising prospects of an "accidental default" by Greece in the absence of fresh funding.

Clancy's attention to equipment and technology reflects growing concerns about cyberwar and drone technology, illustrated by an accidental "quad-copter" crash on White House grounds in January.

Although it seems like a separate thing – a hangover from the cold war or a product of an "accidental" revolution – the Ukraine dispute cannot be kept clear of the economic fault lines produced by the six-year crisis.

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