All 3 Uses
mishap
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Aside from one extraordinary mishap on an Alfa, his career had been one uninterrupted story of achievement.†
Chpt 3. *mishap = unfortunate accident
- He referred to the nuclear-powered icebreaker that had spent two years tied to the dock, unusable because of a reactor mishap.†
Chpt 7.
- Those trials had been cut short only a minute later by an incredible mishap: a fifty-ton right whale had somehow blundered in her path, and the Politovskiy had rammed the unfortunate creature broadside.†
Chpt 8.
Definitions:
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(1)
(mishap) an unfortunate accident -- usually minor
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)