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Quote of the week: an indignant Omar on his blissfully ignorant grandma: "That woman think I work in a cafeteria – at the airport!" Murders: still on 50, but Prez does accidently kills another policeman – a distractingly overdramatic subplot for this point in the series?
If he had Down's syndrome and he accidently pushed someone off a subway, that would be different… I've seen things where people are like, 'Adria didn't know what she was doing by tweeting it.' Yes, I did".
He will either fail to stop something from happening or, perhaps worse, accidently cause something to get done.
Accidently tweeting a pornographic picture to hundreds of thousands of followers?
In fact, once a week he releases a new cartoon onto an Emery's Adventures website.The Johnsons' first joint book, "Bending Time: The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder", was published in late 2013 and tells the story of a genius who must rescue one of his tormentors after he accidently sends him back to the Triassic period.
While the Iron Age peoples of Anatolia and Europe on occasion may have accidently made cast iron, which is chemically the same as blast-furnace iron, the Chinese were the first to realize its advantages.
Their range extends from Canada and central Europe to the southern tips of South America (Tierra del Fuego) and Africa, and they have been accidently introduced into New Zealand and England.
Somewhat later, in 1846, the German chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein accidently treated cotton with a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids and obtained cellulose nitrate, which soon became commonly known as nitrocellulose.
Egyptians were outraged when units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in hot pursuit accidently killed five Egyptian border guards on Egyptian territory.
According to the former restaurant, Philippe Mathieu, its founder, invented the sandwich in 1918 when he accidently dropped a French roll into a juice-filled roasting pan, and the customer said he would eat the "dipped" sandwich anyway.
Jeff Peters (played by Crosby) and Orville ("Turkey") Jackson (Hope) accidently blow up the ship they have stowed away on and are shipwrecked on the coast of Africa.
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The term "accidently" functions as an adverb , although it's a misspelling. It aims to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb by describing how the action was performed. Even though it appears in various contexts according to Ludwig, it should be avoided in formal writing.
Expression frequency: Very common
