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accident English

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What does accident mean?
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accident

An accident is something that happens without a plan, usually something bad. I dropped the glass by accident and it broke. An accident is a vehicle crash. Two people were hurt in a road traffic accident between a car and a motorcycle last night.

accident

an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury (= stroke, fortuity) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause winning the lottery was a happy accident the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck it was due to an accident or fortuity

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Simple sentences

Did you actually see the accident?
With a little more care, the driver could have avoided such a tragic accident.
Dick had a traffic accident.
The accident happened at that crossing.
The policeman blamed the taxi driver for the accident.
I had nothing to do with the accident.
The traffic accident deprived him of his sight.
He met his English teacher at the station by accident.
He was seriously injured in the car accident.
She was unconscious for a whole day after the accident.
He had a traffic accident.
That was no accident; someone set the house on fire.
It was nothing more than an accident.
The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
He was still mad about the accident despite his wife's conciliatory words.
Did you break the window on purpose or by accident?
I met her by accident.
I found that restaurant by accident.
We got involved in a traffic accident.
We didn't actually see the accident.
We actually saw the accident.
It was just an accident that we met.
There appears to have been an accident.
It is true that he did it, whether by accident or by design.
We must make a close analysis of the causes of the accident.
The drivers began arguing about who was to blame for the accident.
Drive more carefully, or you will have an accident.

Movie subtitles

Why, did your mom cause an accident again?
Is she in another accident?
It's an accident of evolution.
I'm afraid Lorraine's been involved in an accident at work.
Sometimes I feel like my dad wishes I was exactly like my older brother, but that might just be because we have the same name, and they only decided to have another kid after first Neal died in a car accident.
My wife, Rie, car accident.
When I pulled into town, I. I had a small accident.
Being sure to have a little accident on the way to put. I'm so sorry.
The police are investigating the accident and her car has been impounded until further notice.
Sergeant, I think his brothers saw the accident.
Did you see the accident and run away because you were scared of getting into trouble?
It appears to be a tragic accident, which is why I do wish you would change hobbies, I.
An accident? - The mine's on fire!
An accident.
You? My wife, Rie, car accident.
Auto accident.
Then he must have met with an accident.
I hope it's not a bad accident.
It was quite an accident.
I got ashore and found your place here by accident.
Looks like some kind of 'orrible accident.
Mr Hall, I've had a serious accident.
I'm afraid there's going to be a nasty accident.
A very nasty accident.
Bad news, Your Majesty, there's been an accident.
We had a slight accident.
How did that accident happen?
The time he caught me was an accident.
The news of the accident had spread throughout the district.
An accident has occurred in District 45!
There is no such thing as accident. It is Fate - mis-named.
Did you have an accident?
There's been an accident here.
And how did he come to have the accident?
Alf's met with an accident.
I saw the accident from down the street.
Weren't you mixed up in an auto accident over in Roslyn, Long Island, a few days ago?
I thought at first it might have been an accident.

News and current affairs

Any train accident or airplane crash is now at first suspected of being an act of terrorism.
I learned this by accident.
And the longer America's politicians take to resolve the debt-ceiling issue, the greater the risk of an inadvertent accident.
Take this example: if you return to the scene of a recent accident, you are likely to have a physical reaction that reflects activation of memories stored in the amygdala.
At the same time, you will be reminded of the accident, will remember where you were going, who you were with, and other details.
The operation's success was no accident.
But when New Jersey Governor John Corzine was involved in a serious road accident last month, it became known that he violated his own state's law by not wearing his seat belt.
The second crisis was immediately preceded by the accident at the Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in March 1979, which reinvigorated the anti-nuclear movement.
Key causes of the accident have been identified.
Indeed, on average, China suffers a major water pollution accident every other day.
It is not an accident that virtually every public move Iran's government has made in the international arena over the past year has added risk to energy markets.
We say that Mary died in a car accident, not that she was a casualty of the Road Traffic Act.
So long as these weapons exist, the threat of their use - either by accident or through an act of sheer madness - will remain.
Either by accident or design, the media choose only those battles that offer the finest spectacles: clashes of personalities, violence and repression, struggles over national identity, and disputes about moral and sexual attitudes.
VIENNA - Nuclear power has become safer since the devastating accident one year ago at Fukushima, Japan.
The accident at Fukushima resulted from an earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented severity.
Measures are being taken to improve preparedness for prolonged power outages, protect backup power sources, and ensure the availability of water for cooling even under severe accident conditions.
Despite the accident, global use of nuclear power looks set to grow steadily in the next 20 years, although at a slower rate than previously forecast.
The fact that an accident such as Fukushima was possible in Japan, one of the world's most advanced industrial countries, is a reminder that, when it comes to nuclear safety, nothing can be taken for granted.
China and other developing Asian economies are experiencing an industrial accident crisis of world-historical proportions.
PORTSMOUTH - Nearly 30 years have passed since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and the scientific community is still arguing about the impact radiation is having on the ecosystem surrounding the reactor.
In the days after the accident, the area's human residents were evacuated with their farm animals to protect them from high levels of radiation.
Even though radiation levels dropped by a factor of nearly 100 in the months after the accident, the area is still judged unfit for human habitation.
There are few reports on the effects of the accident on wild animals, but we know that in some radiation hot spots trees and wildlife died.
Indeed, as early as a few years after the accident, data collected by Belarusan scientists flying helicopter surveys over the abandoned area showed rising numbers of wild boar, elk, and roe deer.

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