no accident

idiom

: something done deliberately

It is no accident that the assistant he hired is so good-looking.

Examples of no accident in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Each season centers on a new case: a disturbed woman who kills a man on the beach out of the blue; a 13-year-old boy who poisons a couple; a car crash that proves to be no accident; and a young woman who mysteriously walks off a cliff’s edge. —

Kevin Jacobsen and Sarah Perchikoff, EW.com, 21 May 2024 Genesis, Hyundai’s nascent luxury division, is in the middle of following Lexus’s playbook, and that’s no accident. —

Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 17 May 2024 The enigmatic nature of the film, right down to its title, is clearly no accident. —

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024 In addition to the aggressive pressing defense, the Bears didn’t hesitate getting floor burns diving for loose balls and that was no accident. —

Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2024 That’s no accident: As more works these days distribute the storytelling burden equally among many members of a cast, odd nomination outcomes — feast or famine — can result. —

Scott Heller, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024 Evidence later revealed that the fire was no accident. —

Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024 The disparity between the two cases was no accident. —

TIME, 15 Apr. 2024 That was no accident, according to Sarah Longwell, a former Republican strategist and a founder of the Bulwark news site. —

Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024

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