as in nondeliberate
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The five leading causes of death among teenagers are unintentional injuries, homicide, suicide, cancer, and heart disease, with accidents accounting for nearly half of all teenage deaths.—
Charell G. Coleman,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025 -
Experts believe these deaths are often unintentional, and are sharks simply confusing human kicks for fish splashes.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
2 June 2025
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Avoid long strings of random numbers, special characters or irrelevant details.—
Nick Zviadadze,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Previous studies landed on either side of the one coin: the formation was random, or that the animals deliberately took up positions that protected vulnerable animals from attack.—
Bronwyn Thompson,
New Atlas,
7 June 2025
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Trump’s weaponization of tariffs is haphazard, and so are his punishing sanctions and trade controls, causing not just a few countries to look for other currency systems.—
T. Nelson Thompson,
Baltimore Sun,
3 June 2025
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Democrats have slammed Musk's approach as haphazard and chaotic.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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These inadvertent discriminatory outputs could lead to serious legal and compliance issues and infringe on the privacy rights of individuals.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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There are new economic factors at play that may have the inadvertent effect of slowing fast fashion and overconsumption, which would ultimately reduce industry emissions.—
Karen Dougherty,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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“Nonpurposive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonpurposive. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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