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The phrase "accidental mentor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who unintentionally provides guidance or support to another person, often in a learning context.
Example: "During my internship, I found my supervisor to be an accidental mentor, offering insights and advice without even realizing the impact they had on my development."
Alternatives: "unintentional guide" or "unexpected teacher".
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I was an accidental mentor.
I like to think of Jill as the accidental mentor.
Over the years we struck up a friendship, and Steve became an accidental mentor of sorts.
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There's also her mentor, Edward Hunt, an accidental hipster from up north who chain-smokes his way through tutorials on Thomas Wyatt dressed in denim and shapeless pullovers.
For his part, English set out to follow the example of his friend and quasi mentor, Thomas J. White, another accidental millionaire who donated most of his fortune to Partners in Health (PIH), a nonprofit that supports health missions in Haiti, Mexico, Russia, and other countries around the world.
"In my own life and career, I have had numerous mentors, most of them accidental, and many of them unaware that I saw them as mentors," says Mickos.
Internet marketing wasn't an interest of mine, but through an accidental relationship, I learned all I could from a mentor willing to help.
Witt, 38, says he is still good friends with Chris Simon and Craig Berube -- a veteran enforcer who served first as an opponent, then mentor and buddy, and once even an accidental casualty.
Or accidental.
accidental (str) – (Optional) Symbol for the accidental.
The discovery was accidental.
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