How to Use coincidence in a Sentence
coincidence
noun- It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery.
- By a fortunate coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time.
- By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred.
- It was mere coincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago.
- Scientists have no explanation for the coincidence of these phenomena.
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And the date of the wedding, 11/11, was a lucky coincidence.
—Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
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As the adage goes, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
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The timing of the fire turned out to be no coincidence.
—Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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Phil, the quieter of the pair, chalks it up to pure coincidence.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
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Of course a lot of that could be chalked up to just coincidence.
—Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
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The hues of said knit—red, blue, and white—was no coincidence.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
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See, the fact that the moon is the perfect size to cover up the face of the sun in the sky is a total coincidence.
—Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
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The man who filed the suit believes the timing isn't a coincidence.
—Libby Cathey, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
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So, are all the deaths around her a coincidence, or just bad luck?
—Emma Steele, CBS News, 6 May 2022
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From the crosstown coincidences to the closing-soon, here are our top picks.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
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Both Tai and Van have been through too much to think this is mere coincidence.
—Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
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So, on the face of it, the current alignment could just be seen as a coincidence.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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But the coincidence of the show’s timing with the invasion of Ukraine is just that.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2022
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If two is a coincidence, and three’s a pattern, then four is a cry for help.
—Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
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The timing of the Tigers’ trip to Israel, then, is no coincidence.
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 9 May 2022
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And yet, by way of grim coincidence, the old and new get about the same observed gas mileage, in the neighborhood of 11-13 mpg.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
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And the revival of the shearling coat is no coincidence.
—Lina-Marie Baatz, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
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By coincidence, the 81 equaled the highs of both Thursday and Friday.
—Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
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So how much of this is coincidence and how much of it is inspired by Swift?
—Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
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But like Lee, Fooshee said the coincidence of events on Jan. 24 may be notable.
—oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2022
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For the galaxies to all be in the same plane and move in the same direction seems like too much of a coincidence.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
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Though the moment felt divine, the names of the two men running the car were only a coincidence.
—Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2021
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The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
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That coincidence may not hold for long, as Black’s cut could climb even higher in the coming frames.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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The closure of the Primary School and a sister campus in the East Bay has led families to wonder if the timing was a coincidence.
—Heather Knight, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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