1
as in casualty
a chance and usually sudden event bringing loss or injury
was involved in a minor accident on her way home from work
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as in luck
the uncertain course of events
you shouldn't leave it to accident to decide where you'll be lodging in the course of your trip across the country
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Recent Examples of accident
Less than a year later, John Wesley Jenkins died in a car accident, leaving $20,000 to be divided among 120 longtime employees.
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Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Earlier that evenings, a 4-year-old girl had died of brain injuries from an accident, and her parents had agreed to donate her organs.
—Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
He's created this fictional world in this uniquely British setting in which all the accidents of human nature play out, but at its heart, there's a generosity of spirit.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Emergency service workers and the National Guard arrived on the scene shortly after the accident to secure the area, per the outlet.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
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Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
Earlier that evenings, a 4-year-old girl had died of brain injuries from an accident, and her parents had agreed to donate her organs.
—Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
He's created this fictional world in this uniquely British setting in which all the accidents of human nature play out, but at its heart, there's a generosity of spirit.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Emergency service workers and the National Guard arrived on the scene shortly after the accident to secure the area, per the outlet.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accident
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Russia is firing double the number of missile strikes from years before, with mounting civilian casualties.—
Oleksandra Matviichuk,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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It was not immediately known how many people were on board the aircraft or whether any casualties occurred.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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The second and third matches are due to be played on Friday and Sunday, but the luck of the Irish may desert them with those grey skies in Dublin.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Leavitt isn't the only Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and MomTok veteran to try her luck on the ballroom this season.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
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This includes adding redundancy to vital systems, segmenting networks so that a compromise in one area does not spread unchecked, and developing explicit incident response processes that incorporate both cyber and physical disaster management.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Last year alone, disasters costing $11 billion hit Florida, according to data from the National Centers for Environmental Information, with a total cost between $300 billion and $450 billion from 1980 to 2024.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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Being able to generate code was finally getting a chance to shine in the bright lights of another erstwhile reason to use generative AI and LLMs.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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There was an official welcome outdoors, a private carriage procession around the Windsor Estate (which the public were kept away from) and the President and First Lady had a chance to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at her tomb in St George's Chapel.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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This game has the power to transport you to the many, and mostly dramatic, circumstances that refugees have to go through.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Sep. 2025
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Lopez described his mother, aunts, and older female cousins as elegant women whose high taste belied their humble circumstances.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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The kitchen made it through that first lunch rush with no big mishaps.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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The result is a warm collection of stories that show her range — family stories, summer camp mishaps, coming-of-age tales, and more — and her knack for building an entire world and a deeper feeling from one central idea.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
15 Sep. 2025
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The survivors were scattered around the world, and even over a century later, the tragedy still colors their view of their ancestral region.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Sep. 2025
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Republicans, who say school security and improving mental health services are the best way to avoid future tragedies, have firmly opposed any new gun control measures.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Accident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accident. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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