"accident of birth" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, “Uncle Wellington's Wives”, in The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories",
          "text": "[H]e said to himself that he was a very good-looking man, and could have adorned a much higher sphere in life than that in which the accident of birth had placed him.",
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          "ref": "1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 4, in A Texas Ranger",
          "text": "\"You're no brother of mine,\" she broke in. \"At most it is an accident of birth I disown. I'll have no relationship with you of any sort.\"",
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          "ref": "1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 9, in Heart of the Sunset",
          "text": "An accident of birth had made him a citizen of the United States—his father having owned a ranch which lay north instead of south of the Rio Grande.",
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        "A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control."
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          "characteristic",
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        "(idiomatic) A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control."
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "situation or characteristic resulting from birth",
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          "word": "syntymävamma"
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          "sense": "situation or characteristic resulting from birth",
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          "word": "syntymälahja"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "situation or characteristic resulting from birth",
          "word": "acidente de percurso"
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          "ref": "1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, “Uncle Wellington's Wives”, in The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories",
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        },
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          "ref": "1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 4, in A Texas Ranger",
          "text": "\"You're no brother of mine,\" she broke in. \"At most it is an accident of birth I disown. I'll have no relationship with you of any sort.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 9, in Heart of the Sunset",
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        "A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control."
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        "(idiomatic) A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control."
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "situation or characteristic resulting from birth",
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      "word": "syntymävamma"
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      "sense": "situation or characteristic resulting from birth",
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