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Even HBO’s “Avenue 5,” about passengers stranded in close quarters, on an interplanetary cruise ship with questionable leadership, suddenly hits unintendedly close to Earth.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2020

In any event I regret if anyone was unintendedly offended.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2014

We are each an unwilling owner of memories unintendedly stumbled upon while wandering through our subconscious: No!

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2013

This declaration of the Abbe's, respecting motives, has led me unintendedly into a train of metaphysical reasoning; but there was no other avenue by which it could so properly be approached.

From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas

“Resurrection” was written primarily for a constructive moral purpose, yet the subject matter was such as to secrete, unintendedly, a corrosive criticism of social and religious cant.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto