The phrase "accidental single" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something unexpected or unintentional occurs, particularly in relation to a single item or event.
Example: "The accidental single in the data set skewed the results of our analysis."
Alternatives: "unintentional single" or "unexpected single".
With a modern military weapon, a truly accidental single discharge is highly unlikely.
9 P.M. (Fox) HOUSE -- Cynthia Nixon, who despite her illustrious stage career, will forever be known as Miranda, the lawyer and accidental single mother in HBO's "Sex and the City," guest-stars as a compulsive gambler.
The accidental single layer defects form as gaps between adjacent laser melt tracks or melt track discontinuousness caused by inherent fluid instability under various disturbances.
Inclusion criteria for subjects were (1) ≥ 60 years, (2) admitted to hospital for an accidental single-side hip fracture, (3) receiving hip arthroplasty or internal fixation, (4) able to perform active movement against gravity and some resistance or full resistance, and with pre-fracture Chinese Barthel Index (CBI) score > 70, and (5) living in northern Taiwan.
Yet, as he admitted, he was seldom present at "a single accidental convulsion of history".
"Only by the wildest freak is a reporter, after many years on the hop," he said later, "actually present at a single accidental convulsion of history".
Every book is born alone, but sometimes a pair will surface in accidental synchrony, a single theme creating an impromptu pas de deux.
She said there had not been a single accidental contamination in the laboratory where the tests were performed since it was built in 1997, and that no case of anthrax has been reported in Santiago since 1994.
In the end, the restaurateur's most lasting contribution to the world may end up being not an exalted snobbishness but a single, accidental culinary innovation that has had a far-reaching effect on the American culinary repertoire.
Mr. Paisley's album, "Wheelhouse" (Arista Nashville), has gotten a great deal of attention for the single "Accidental Racist," but that was not enough to take it to the top spot.
There are a few resonant bits of wisdom ("There's a safety in thinking in a diner") and some instances of accidental poetry ("every single thing that is a thing"), but mostly the writing is robotically declarative ("I love the French", "I love dream logic") and so repetitive that it all but induces a trance-like stupor.
