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incident English

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What does incident mean?
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incident

An incident is an event or occurrence. What happened before was sure an unusual incident. He was fired over an incident in the staff lounge. An incident is a small event that has something to do with other events.

incident

a single distinct event falling or striking of light rays on something incident light a public disturbance the police investigated an incident at the bus station (= incidental) (sometimes followed by 'to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence incidental expenses the road will bring other incidental advantages extra duties incidental to the job labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion confusion incidental to a quick change

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Simple sentences

I had nothing to do with that incident.
I reported the incident.
Dan was questioned by the police about the incident.
I had a similar incident.
Why do you attach importance to this incident?
We mustn't make too much of this incident.
To investigate the incident would take us at least three weeks.
It's a trifling incident.
When and how did the incident come about?
That incident harmed his reputation.
The incident took place at midnight.
A reward has been offered for information pertaining to the incident.
That incident put his courage to the test.
There was something weird about the incident.
I'm not at liberty to tell you about the incident.
We must not make too much of this incident.
There was an unfortunate incident at home.
It was impossible for me not to think of incident.
The incident was etched in his memory.
The incident left a spot on his reputation.
That incident drew his interest.
The incident sowed the seeds of the war.
We must prevent this type of incident from recurring.
This is the place where the incident took place.

Movie subtitles

Well, it looks like he was thoroughly investigated, thanks to that incident with Zero.
Well, he's always changing his mind so often, so I'm not sure what's his real intention, but in my opinion, maybe he's very regretting about last night's incident.
However, about the last night's incident, why don't you call him one day and scold harshly?
I have never seen such interesting incident ever since I was born!
Since there was that incident with me, she might have run away.
I'm personally leading a trauma team down to the incident now.
It's still tense because of the incident.
I'm afraid I have to report the incident to the General Nursing Council and the Central Midwives Board.
That's why the Chinese can't turn this into an international incident.
If you continue to refuse to see me, then tomorrow the whole city will know about that mysterious incident on the day of your betrothal to your husband.
Since that night in the dancehall the Little Fellow hadn't seen Georgia, but an incident was to bring them together again.
I presume you're aware that this incident will have consequences.
I want to apologize for the little over incident that my boys had with you.
No, that's where they went after the Penruddock incident.
Apparently on lack of evidence. Well, it looks like he was thoroughly investigated, thanks to that incident with Zero.
There isn't a single person at U.N. headquarters who has any memory of this incident.
So I guess that little incident back at the house makes us fugitives for real, doesn't it?
Even in a world where the entire human race has been subjected to forced evolution, cyborgs would certainly survive without incident.
I want you to understand also that it's imperative there should be no incident that could cause a frontier war at this time.
There, now, dry your eyes. And let's forget this little incident.
I want this unfortunate incident kept under wraps.
After this very unfortunate incident, let's now play March of the Giants.
I have come to offer sincere apologies. An extremely serious incident has occurred.
I mean, perhaps with some other incident in your family history?
I am willing to forget the incident but will those boys forget it?
Gentlemen. Do not be unduly depressed by this painful incident.
Turning in because of that incident?
Tito, you've caused another international incident.
I remember an incident in Calcutta.
But a slight incident just happened.
Well, it was not an incident.
Come on, come on, a slight incident, just a slight incident will force the gondola to stay grounded for a few hours on planet Venus.

News and current affairs

As far as we know, Kundera never was an informer before or after this incident, and we cannot ignore that he later freed himself from the compulsory totalitarian happiness that communism propagated.
Milosevic's extradition to face charges of war crimes before the Hague Tribunal--a trial that has proceeded without incident in Serbia--was also peaceful.
A remarkable incident has emboldened Chinese journalists.
Foreign observers are prone to associate the Bing Dian incident with other recent crackdowns on China's mass media, and to conclude that Chinese journalism freedom is hopeless under the present autocratic regulation.
Meanwhile, the standoff over the Scarborough Shoal has calmed down, and, while Japan recalled its ambassador from South Korea over the Dokdo incident, it is unlikely the two countries would come to blows.
Consider the Senkaku incident in 2010, when, after Japan arrested the crew of a Chinese trawler that had rammed a Japanese coast guard vessel, China escalated its economic reprisals.
Or people think about North Korea's nuclear program, some terrorist incident, or the humanitarian consequences of the latest earthquake or tsunami.
The lessons of this unfortunate incident seem to me to be clear: We should all acknowledge that in the modern world it is increasingly necessary for all sensible people to work for mutual respect, tolerance and better understanding.
The incident caused an uproar that compelled the authorities to arrest, interrogate, and try the Egyptian police officers in charge.
After years of official denial, that horrifying incident triggered awareness that terrorism does exist in Indonesia and that Indonesia's home grown fanatics are connected to a global terrorist network.
In the l980's, the worst terrorist incident killed 300 people.
But the incident raises broader questions: was the attack deliberate?
One famous incident in the late eighteenth century was Lord Macartney's British mission to the Imperial Court of China.
But the American media more or less brushed aside this shocking incident, too.
This incident revealed the extent to which the police cooperated in turning ordinary Chinese into slaves.
The Mekong incident tells another grim story.
Even before the trawler incident, China was trying to regulate rare-earths, defining them as a strategic resource.
If that is indeed the case, the episode should not be regarded as yet another incident in a region fraught by conflict and violence.

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