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noun
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
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All of the patients I have met are accident victims or have serious birth defects that require correction.
"Otherwise," Mr. Pearlstein explains, "the canvases are accident prone; every dent shows up when they're stretched too tight".
There are Accident and Emergency departments under serious pressure.
The other Aristotelian fallacies included are accident, combination and division, secundum quid and ambiguity.
Accident statistics show that transitions from rural to urban areas are accident prone locations.
Examples are "accident" ('black' in 'This cat is black'), "species" ('man' in 'Socrates is a man'), and "definition" ('rational animal' in 'Man is a rational animal') (see Porphyry 1975).
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Google's self-driving cars are accident-prone – but it may not be their fault.
To an extent, we are accident-prone because we are imaginative.
For industrial workers there are accident-prevention measures and insurance programs that provide for hospital treatment, sick leave, disability compensation, maternity leave, old-age benefits, and death benefits.
Taylor's characters are accident-prone and harried by errands; their reveries are interrupted by the quotidian — running out of toilet paper, washing the dishes, thinking about food.
Taylor's characters are accident-prone and harried by errands; their reveries are interrupted by the quotidian running out of toilet paper, washing the dishes, thinking about food.
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