by mistake
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Well, dear reader, I took a break, too—from What’s News—to write about great innovations that were discovered by mistake.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
When these files were released, a number of things seemed to have been released by mistake.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
For more than an hour, Trump repeatedly called Greenland Iceland by mistake, while demanding it be turned over to him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
It believed those tools could also help to identify and arrest prisoners released by mistake, and would only be used in time-limited, focused deployments.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
I’d have to tell her some girl friend at school bought them by mistake and wanted to sell them cheap or something like that.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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