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On the trip, by a series of stumbling inadvertencies, he runs down a murder story and falls in love.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, in our era of carefully crafted images, these electronic inadvertencies and other unmasked asides carried out of the White House by listeners form a valuable body of presidential lore.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not suppose the passage corrupt: such inadvertencies neither author nor editor can escape.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

But the impression left by this and others of Mrs. Haywood's works is that the fair novelist was not so much interested in preventing the inadvertencies of her sex as in exposing them.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

We subjoin a passage or two illustrative of his inadvertencies in respect to language.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)