coincidence

noun

co·in·ci·dence | \kō-ˈin(t)-sə-dən(t)s,

-sə-ˌden(t)s\

Definition of coincidence

1 : the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence … a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness …— Robert South

2 : the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection … causal connection requires something more than mere coincidence as to time and place …— Wayne R. LaFave also : any of these occurrences

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Examples of coincidence in a Sentence

It was mere coincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago. By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred. “I'm going to Boston this weekend.” “What a coincidence! I am too.” It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery. a series of strange coincidences By a fortunate coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time. Scientists have no explanation for the coincidence of these phenomena.

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In what was likely not a coincidence, the Justice Department on Friday unsealed an indictment charging 11 suspected MS-13 gang members in connection with the killings of two teens in Virginia. — Jonathan Lemire And Darlene Superville, chicagotribune.com, "Dismissing 'phony stories of sadness' in immigration crisis, Trump meets with 'angel families'," 23 June 2018 That divergence isn’t a coincidence, and reflects the growing divide in the state between the liberal cities that drive the state’s economy and the conservative small towns and rural areas that control state politics. — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "North Carolina Teachers March for More Education Funding," 16 May 2018 That divergence isn’t a coincidence, and reflects the growing divide in the state between the liberal cities that drive the state’s economy and the conservative small towns and rural areas that control state politics. — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, "North Carolina Teachers Protest, Exposing a Rural-Urban Divide," 16 May 2018 Related Graduates say that is no coincidence, since the student body, largely Catholic, tends to skew politically conservative. — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, "The All-Boys High School Producing GOP Bigwigs," 11 July 2018 The fact that this happened in a newspaper is no coincidence. — Emma Green, The Atlantic, "The Capital Gazette Won’t Stop Reporting," 29 June 2018 The portfolio of small batch wines clad in old-school tattoo labels is mostly Mediterranean-themed, with solid white and red Grenache wines and fragrant Viognier, a recurring phenomenon in this region, probably not a coincidence. — Tim Teichgraeber, SFChronicle.com, "Five vineyards you must see in Oregon’s lesser-known Rogue Valley region," 23 May 2018 This design flourish was no coincidence; the restaurant, until around 2014, was a combination KFC-Taco Bell. — Nate Berg, Curbed, "McDonald’s 2.0," 11 Apr. 2018 And that’s no coincidence. Wage suppression is just like a tax: a tax on the labor of workers. — Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, Vox, "More and more companies have monopoly power over workers’ wages. That’s killing the economy.," 6 Apr. 2018

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