Thesaurus results for CO-OCCURRENCE

co-occurrence

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Recent Examples of co-occurrence Overlapping risk factors and immune system vulnerability likely explain the co-occurrence of these two cancers. — Health Editorial Team, Health, 3 Dec. 2025

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Noun

With that mindset, the end of the world has been a near-weekly occurrence in Florham Park every fall.

— Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
In fact, since 1940, August’s heat has only beaten July’s global average temperatures four times, not including this year, Burgess said, with the most recent occurrence taking place in 1985.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026

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The Warriors obtained that pick from the Timberwolves in a 2020 trade that sent D’Angelo Russell to Minnesota, another wrinkle of coincidence on his way to the Timberwolves.

— Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Two years later, I was born, on their wedding date and into a much larger and more somber coincidence.

— Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of coincidence

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The food menu complements the martini focus, with easy raw bar pairings like caviar service, coconut fluke ceviche and tuna tartare served with avocado mousse and wasabi.

— Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Was the result a fluke, a random finding that didn’t mean much?

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of fluke

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In the event of an incident, the current system requires a medical team to reach the driver after an incident, make an assessment and then transfer him to the medical center.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
For example, ExploitGym, a cybersecurity benchmark that was at the center of the July incident in which OpenAI’s models went rogue and attacked the company Hugging Face, was created in 2026.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of incident

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