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How to pronounce accidentally in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms unintentionally
Type Words
Synonyms by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly


they met accidentally.
Type Words
Synonyms incidentally

Examples of accidentally

accidentally
The miners accidentally breached the walls of an adjacent mine that was flooded.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In the film, Jeffrey Chow has accidentally blinded a singer in an assassination.
From the washingtonpost.com
Fingers crossed, Kate will accidentally call him Harry and if she won't, I will.
From the time.com
Last night, Apple accidentally threw up a new ad for the Mac Pro on its UK site.
From the techcrunch.com
It fell to McCartney to wield the axe almost accidentally in the spring of 1970.
From the guardian.co.uk
No one makes a wrong turn and accidentally ends up in Oregon, Nevada or Arizona.
From the latimes.com
As with most people in the Chamber world, I got into this industry accidentally.
From the democratandchronicle.com
She wanted more, he didn't, and according to her, she accidentally got pregnant.
From the newsobserver.com
He almost slugged a stranger accidentally when Barry Turner sacked WMU's passer.
From the omaha.com
More examples
  • By chance: without advance planning; "they met accidentally"
  • Incidentally: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models"
  • Unintentionally: without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him unintentionally"
  • (accidental) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ; "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
  • (accidental) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
  • An accident is a specific, unexpected, unusual and unintended external action which occurs in a particular time and place, with no apparent and deliberate cause but with marked effects. ...
  • (Accidental (album)) Accidental (Music for Dance volume 3) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. ...
  • (Accidental (biology)) Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. ...
  • (Accidental (music)) In music, an accidental is a note whose pitch (or pitch class) is not a member of a scale or mode indicated by the most recently applied key signature. In musical notation, the symbols used to mark such notes, sharps , flats , and naturals , may also be called accidentals. ...