accidentally on purpose
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Wills can be destroyed or mislaid, accidentally on purpose; beneficiary designations are the purview of the financial institution in question.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025
Since this is Stephin Merritt, it can only be accidentally on purpose that this album all about “I” gives its literal final word to “you.”
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2017
"I found it accidentally on purpose," he said.
From US News • May 18, 2016
It is cold and damp, as it often is in Scotland, and his father has disappeared with a woman he has accidentally on purpose run into.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2016
And then I’d get scared and mess up…sort of accidentally on purpose.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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