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The phrase "accidental tragedy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unfortunate event that occurs unexpectedly and without intention, often resulting in harm or loss.
Example: "The fire was deemed an accidental tragedy, leaving the community in shock and mourning for the lives lost."
Alternatives: "unintentional disaster" or "inadvertent calamity".
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Roderick also wrote biographies of famous Scots, including John Knox, Democrat (2001); The Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume (2004); An Accidental Tragedy: the Life of Mary Queen of Scots (2009), and Arbiter of Elegance: A Biography of Robert Adam (2009).
The revenge of a whale or an accidental tragedy?
Ultimately, very little happens except for an accidental tragedy at the climax, adding to the aimless nature of the story.
"If survivors' reports are confirmed, this will be the worst shipwreck of migrants in years, not an accidental tragedy, but the apparent deliberate drowning of migrants by criminal gangs who extort money for their desperate journeys," IOM spokesperson Leonard Doyle said.
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The former are actors who put strong, persistent efforts into promoting certain policies, while the latter are rare and prominent events, such as natural disasters, accidental tragedies, and scientific discovery that enhance the perceived need for government action among policymakers.
By the way, I get almost as angry over the erasure of Hatshepsut's memory, the burning of the library at Alexandria, and the blowing up of the Parthenon, no matter how culturally understandable, incidental or accidental those tragedies might have been.
Rather, each of the new roommates will now have two guns ― and so goes the arms race process, increasing both the volume and fire power of the guns at hand while simultaneously increasing the potential of these guns as factors in homicides, suicides, and accidental discharge tragedies.
More than 26,000 lives are lost to the preventable tragedy of accidental drug overdose every year in the U.S., making accidental drug overdose the leading cause of injury-related death for people between the ages of 35-54 and the second-leading cause of injury-related death for young people.
In his memoirs, Mr. Sharon describes the killings as mostly accidental and as a "tragedy".
"Here," writes Michael M. Grynbaum for the Lens blog, "is a snapshot of that daily drama, its small tragedies and accidental comedies captured raw".
Here is a snapshot of that daily drama, its small tragedies and accidental comedies captured raw, be it from railroad-riders at Pennsylvania Station or straphangers in the subway.
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