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Unintentional or resulting from inattention.

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inadvertent

An inadvertent omission left one contributor out of the program.
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A discrepancy appeared between the year printed below one photograph and the year in its approved caption. Amara traced it to an inadvertent copying error: an old caption had been pasted into the new layout by mistake.
From The Care Behind a Clean Page.
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