The phrase "accidental association" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a connection or relationship that occurs by chance rather than by intention or design.
Example: "The accidental association between the two variables was surprising and led to further investigation."
Alternatives: "chance connection" or "unintentional link".
Thus Page 3 was able to bask, for the briefest of moments, in its almost accidental association with hippie culture and the sexual revolution.
(The climactic game involves piggy banks and the crowd chanting "Smash that pig! Smash that pig!" which for some viewers will provoke an unseemly – accidental? – association with the creepy Pig in a Poke game show at the start of National Lampoon's European Vacation).
The detectability of RSV and hMPV did not achieve a significant level and could be established as an accidental association in different patient groups (Tables 2– 4).
Then, for each pair of NcCOGs, the number of lattice points giving the pair was counted, and the pair found only once was omitted to reduce the case of an accidental association.
The book is subtitled "The Memories of Patsy Ruth Miller," and memories they are, following chronology only generally and taking the charmingly meandering path of accidental associations.
For, if we were always awake, some accidental associations would be cemented by continuance, as that nothing could afterwards disjoin them, which would be madness" (OM 1, prop. 91).
Also, we included only the 10 most frequent of the 43 vascular plant taxa recorded to avoid accidental associations caused by low sample size.
Apart from that first, accidental, geographic association with posh houses and reactionary politics, Crace has to say of his childhood that he was short.
Instead, the affects can spread through associations between their objects, including the most accidental of associations in memory or imagination, as well as through causal relations.
Is this association accidental, or can it tell us something about how food allergies develop?
This accidental but pervasive association of empiricism with neutral monism explains why most extant versions of the doctrine locate the neutral elements in experience, in the given.
