Example sentences for: accidental

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  • Franciscan friars, such as the 16th-century Bishop Diego de Landa, were dispatched from Europe to spread the Christian faith throughout the peninsula, though they were met with some resistance — any similarity between the early Yucatecan churches and military fortresses is not accidental.

  • Some quality control problems noted at the WP : 1) A story about trials of an experimental anti-autism drug is slugged by the paper "Treatment Counters Autism" even though the story goes on to explain that the drug worked no better in the studies than placebos given to the control group; 2) an AP story the paper runs about a credit card scam targeting senior military officers fails to mention that the Wall Street Journal broke the news yesterday; 3) over a heart-wrenching story about a 9-year-old boy who concealed the accidental death of his mother for a month, leaving her body in their home because he was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, the Post goes with the bad taste headline of the year, century, and millennium: "MOTHER DIED, BUT BOY, 9, KEPT MUM."

  • The NYT fronts the U.S. government's warning that parents should not sleep in the same bed with a child less than 2 years old because of the danger of accidental smothering or strangling.

  • The potential hazards associated with the use of the substitute chemical include acute irritation and burns from accidental exposure due to spills or splashes.

  • It is accidental in the sense that Lincoln spontaneously added the divine invocation as he neared the end of the address.


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