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
Microsoft has acknowledged an error causing its AI work assistant to access and summarise some users' confidential emails by mistake.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 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
In her rare moments of lucidity she understood that this was not a nightmare and that she was not there by mistake.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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