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The phrase "accidentally detonated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where an explosion or similar event occurred unintentionally.
Example: "The old munitions were accidentally detonated during the demolition process, causing a significant safety concern."
Alternatives: "unintentionally exploded" or "inadvertently triggered".
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It looks like MacGruber has accidentally detonated his last explosive device for now.
Maybe Kareem's whole story was a fabrication and they'd been involved in placing an I.E.D. that accidentally detonated.
Around 12 30 a.m., the robots tried to clip a wire to disarm one bomb and accidentally detonated it.
Seven Ukrainian soldiers and one Kazakh soldier were killed when a bomb accidentally detonated near Suwayra, 50 miles southeast of Baghdad.
A man suspected of illegally storing explosives that accidentally detonated early Monday, killing 47 people in northern Shaanxi Province, surrendered to the police, state news media said.
In trying to secure the devices, law enforcement officals, using robots, accidentally detonated one of the devices early Monday, he said.
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"We can't rule out that Mr. House didn't construct this himself and accidentally detonate it, in which case it would be an accidental death," Joseph Chacon, the assistant chief of police in Austin, said at a press conference three days after House was killed, to explain why the department was not yet treating the incident as a murder.
But I love to read those apparently blank-faced and emotionally-cauterised protagonists – Camus, Greene - who seem to have to stand extra still in the narrative in case they accidentally detonate the fearsome rage of their true feelings.
Such objects can accidentally detonate or explode, causing death or severe injuries.
The signal from the radio may cause certain types of mines or UXO to accidentally detonate.
The signal from cell phones may also have the capability to accidentally detonate explosive devices (insurgents and terrorists have frequently used cell phones to remotely detonate explosive devices, but these detonations required a signal).
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