as in coincidently
at one and the same time
the final stages of the Napoleonic Wars were fought coincidentally with the U.S.-British conflict known as the War of 1812
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Recent Examples of coincidentally
Perhaps coincidentally, the shutdown comes just a month after an entertainment venue with a national footprint, Dave & Buster’s, moved in down the block.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
Instead, kind of coincidentally, the unions ended up, SEIU Local 1021, ended up being the one that put together the parcel tax language and funded the petition gathering process.
—John Ramos, CBS News, 31 May 2026
And for me, ‘Amor Eterno,’ coincidentally also patterns how most requiems start, which is requiem eternum, eternal rest, eternal love.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
Shelly Brown is, coincidentally, also a jewelry designer.
—Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
Instead, kind of coincidentally, the unions ended up, SEIU Local 1021, ended up being the one that put together the parcel tax language and funded the petition gathering process.
—John Ramos, CBS News, 31 May 2026
And for me, ‘Amor Eterno,’ coincidentally also patterns how most requiems start, which is requiem eternum, eternal rest, eternal love.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
Shelly Brown is, coincidentally, also a jewelry designer.
—Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coincidentally
Adverb
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Baltimore had coincidently fallen 17 points below its scoring average, and the Ravens fell to 1-3 for the first time since 2015 — a campaign that ended with a 5-11 record.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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In Oshkosh, Franki runs a foundation that fights teen suicide and, coincidently, the office space sits in an old George Webb location.—
Jack Albright,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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In the museum’s Cain Gallery, running concurrently, is a photography show by Aimee Tomasek, associate professor of communication and visual arts at Valparaiso University.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
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For the first time ever, in the parks’ history, a movie and a ride will debut concurrently, and that has never been done before.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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That turn of phrase, which gives both the band’s eighth album and lead track its title, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, frankly doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and that’s sort of the point since Banks came up with it while improvising the melodies and vocals simultaneously.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2026
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But, unlike armies of antiquity, modern armies depend on an extraordinarily complex web of fuel, ammunition, spare parts, maintenance crews, communications, transport, and increasingly autonomous systems operating across multiple domains simultaneously.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
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“Coincidentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincidentally. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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