as in nondeliberate
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Adjective
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That same year, the Beatles gave the vehicle a major, although perhaps unintentional, endorsement.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Feb. 2025 -
Of course, the unintentional gross-out performance did nothing to stop Ferguson's Hollywood ascent.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Experts say the four recent accidents should not be viewed as a systemic, nationwide problem, but rather as four random events that happened to cluster together in time.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Feb. 2025
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Each random aside and unexpected focal point helps develop the characters, fleshing out Marshall, Frances, Copano, and Harrington beyond their function in the narrative.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Narrative has always felt very natural to me, probably because I was raised in a household of storytellers, and because formal linearity affords me a sense of aesthetic control over my very haphazard, exilic life.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
16 Jan. 2025
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But most of those efforts were haphazard, devolved into infighting among Chicanosauruses and didn’t develop into a full-fledged movement.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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Mike Pence's inadvertent attraction of a fly to his white hair during the 2020 vice presidential debate will forever be enshrined in the annals of veep satire.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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After taking an inadvertent elbow to his nose in the 17th minute, which left him bloodied, the Real Salt Lake No. 10 threaded a pass to White three minutes later.—
Felipe Cardenas,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Nonpurposive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonpurposive. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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