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Discover LudwigThe term "incidental event" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an event or occurrence that is not significant in itself, but which may have some relevance or consequence in the overall context or situation. For example, "The meeting was nearly cancelled due to an incidental event that had caused a delay."
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Everything in it -- the gesturing, toothless soothsayer who glances through the coffee shop's window into the black night; his porcupine-like mane; his coffee mug, and the spoon handle sticking out of it; the silhouetted, Magritte-like figure sipping coffee behind him; the signs taped to the window -- everything either enhances the immediacy or exaggerates the import of this incidental event.
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'Composers Close Up' Yoav Gal's "Mosheh" (2003) is an opera that examines the incidental events and peripheral characters in the biblical story of Moses, rather than the monumental events.
The film's strong and simple dramatic backbone sustains a wide range of incidental events that arise from the premise and fill in the background of the story and the characters with a cleverly calculated precision.
There are silly creative-writing-class exercises, like replacing every noun in Mr. Nixon's famous Checkers speech with the seventh noun below it in the dictionary; and imagining some incidental events in Mrs. Nixon's life (like taking a bubble bath or drawing sea creatures in the beach sand with her big toe).
Some episodes feel like extended infomercial/tutorials for Surfaces wrapped around incidental events like shooting, chasing, surfing and such.
In the design of protective structures, concrete walls are often used to provide effective protection against blast from incidental events.
Missed doses were caused by incidental events like journeys and running out of pills.
Additionally, many of the mutations found in this cell line are likely to be incidental events.
The study period will be brief to reduce the likelihood that changes in outcomes are due to dementia progression, inter-current illness or other incidental events.
In addition, recall may differ according to the type of event to which it refers with life events, such as a death, being less subject to bias than more incidental events.
As part of an increasing focus on staging procedures, treatment modalities, treatment outcomes and improving cancer survival, the significance of asymptomatic or incidental events is becoming increasingly recognised [ 13].
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