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as in coincident
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the nearly coincidental deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa
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as in attending
present at the same time and place
claims a connection between the proliferation of fast-food restaurants and the coincidental surge in the rate of obesity
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Recent Examples of coincidental
This alignment with prosocial AI isn't coincidental — both frameworks recognize that unchecked pursuit of efficiency or profit can lead to societal harm.
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Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
The magic number of three — however coincidental and inaccurate — was too much for the internet to resist.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 July 2025
The choice of name was coincidental but Lee and Kirby were anxious to avoid any connection to radical politics.
—Ekow Eshun
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
Any resemblance to actual places, events or persons — living or deceased — is purely coincidental and unintentional.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 10 July 2025
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Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
The magic number of three — however coincidental and inaccurate — was too much for the internet to resist.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 July 2025
The choice of name was coincidental but Lee and Kirby were anxious to avoid any connection to radical politics.
—Ekow Eshun
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
Any resemblance to actual places, events or persons — living or deceased — is purely coincidental and unintentional.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coincidental
Adjective
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2024
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The tendency of policymakers to date has been to view the harms from internet platforms not as systemic, but as a series of coincident issues.—
Roger McNamee,
Wired,
24 July 2021
Adjective
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Only a small fraction of concurrent credit students in school districts take at least 29 credit hours.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
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However, in cases where someone was convicted of two or more crimes and served concurrent or uninterrupted consecutive prison terms, those only count as a single conviction under the persistent felony offender law.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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Still, the record’s title track, out now with an accompanying music video directed by Floria Sigismondi, settles into an expanse of solitude.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 100 winning entries will be announced on October 14 at the museum and on an accompanying broadcast on its YouTube channel.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Sep. 2025
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The modules are supplemented with synchronous discussions led by world-class educators who provide Masterclasses across diverse disciplines.—
Bryan Penprase,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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At that time, two different brain networks generate slow, synchronous electrical waves known as slow waves that connect visual stimuli with brain regions required for navigation.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Aug. 2025
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The conference call did not so much address the controversy as paint the campaigns — and the attendant exposure — as a kind of marketing masterclass.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence testifying to the importance of fire for our kind was the attendant suite of changes to the anatomy of the now-varied group of hominins, various species of which spanned not only Africa but also Eurasia as the Pleistocene drew on, from Spain to Indonesia.—
Peter Brannen,
Big Think,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For his last runway collection, unveiled in September, Michele constructed a parallel universe of side-by-side shows separated by a wall that when lifted revealed twins in identical looks in synchronic stride.—
Colleen Barry,
Fortune,
24 Nov. 2022
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With a lockable synchronic-tilt mechanism and special Z-Shape design, the Kaiser 2 can accommodate a weight up to 180kg, quite a bit more than normal mechanisms on office chairs and the back can be reclined to an angle of 160 degrees which can be locked when not in rocking mode.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2021
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This is especially the case for people taking associated blood thinners or anti-inflammatory drugs, people allergic to Meloxicam or people with a pre-existing medical condition.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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That analogy neglects the great distances and associated challenges of the Asia theatre.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Coincidental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincidental. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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