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.
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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.
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Paolo Confino,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2022
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The timing of the fire turned out to be no coincidence.
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Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Nov. 2023
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Phil, the quieter of the pair, chalks it up to pure coincidence.
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Aria Bendix,
NBC News,
4 Nov. 2023
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Of course a lot of that could be chalked up to just coincidence.
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Gisele Grayson,
NPR,
23 May 2024
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The hues of said knit—red, blue, and white—was no coincidence.
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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.
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Popsci Staff,
Popular Science,
27 Mar. 2024
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The man who filed the suit believes the timing isn't a coincidence.
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Libby Cathey,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2023
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So, are all the deaths around her a coincidence, or just bad luck?
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Emma Steele,
CBS News,
6 May 2022
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From the crosstown coincidences to the closing-soon, here are our top picks.
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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.
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Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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But the coincidence of the show’s timing with the invasion of Ukraine is just that.
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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.
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Vulture,
27 Jan. 2023
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The timing of the Tigers’ trip to Israel, then, is no coincidence.
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Tom Green | [email protected],
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.
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Dan Neil,
WSJ,
17 Mar. 2022
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And the revival of the shearling coat is no coincidence.
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Lina-Marie Baatz,
Glamour,
5 Dec. 2024
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By coincidence, the 81 equaled the highs of both Thursday and Friday.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
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Jackie Appel,
Popular Mechanics,
7 June 2023
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The vast majority of the album doesn’t line up to the action on the screen in any way, and the parts that do are just coincidences.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
27 Nov. 2024
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In a strange coincidence, on his first day of kindergarten, the boy who sat next to him happened to have the last name Brennan.
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Washington Post,
8 Apr. 2022
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In another coincidence, the funeral for Elissa’s mother will be held on March 8 — the same day as Noah’s due date.
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Escher Walcott,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Praxis comes easily from the cabana, and the show suggests that any astuteness from the rich and young is a coincidence and temporary at that.
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Joe Joyce,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
14 Mar. 2025
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