Accident in a sentence as a noun

Our worst nightmare is to drop that data by accident.

When was the last time you saw "girl dies in tragic polo accident" on the front page?

"Debt isn't some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street.

With a recent client this accident would not have happened.

C makes this sort of bug easy to write, but careful API design would make it much harder to do by accident.

I then googled for the partition of, say, 1034, which is: 91363785902248291467082481888195 I figured that chances are that no website will have that integer on there by accident.

If you want to be perfectly safe, you'll never leave your house in case you catch a germ, get in a car accident or even slip on a banana peel.

'Here's the dirty secret: All logos are designed in a momentary collision of experience and accident.

Google's strategy of "scalable customer service" is no accident.

“We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.”This is my position on the Olympics and basically all national pride.

Those are both very real life things just not the same thing.>>It is all due to a historical accident: in 1893, the great Karl Pearson introduced the term "standard deviation" for what had been known as "root mean square error".

I told her we were headed home, just across the way, when my friend and I encountered the accident; and that I’d recently broken my elbow in a similar bike accident here and deeply cared about the outcome.

Usually in aircraft accidents there's a chain of events, but in this case there were so many possible contributing causes that other than having better pitots that didn't freeze over, solving any one other problem may not have broken the chain.

It's a huge number of people that most of the technorati ignore - Facebook captured that market practically by accident, and Pinterest is exploding because somebody finally thought to actually aim in that direction on purpose.

It's no accident that the author turns to the authority of feminists for perspectives on men -- despite that being so laughly outside the remit of feminism -- because the entire point, unstated but present, throughout the article is that women have 'got it right' and men should be more like women.

Some news reports are ridiculous by foreign standards: teachers not being allowed to shake hands with students out of fear of sexual harassment allegations, boys suspended from school for drawing guns, bystanders not administering first-aid to accident victims out of fear of lawsuits, and of course the terrorism hysteria for which I have no words.

Accident definitions

noun

an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

noun

anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"

See also: stroke fortuity