coincidence
Americannoun
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a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance.
Our meeting in Venice was pure coincidence.
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the condition or fact of coinciding.
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an instance of this.
noun
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a chance occurrence of events remarkable either for being simultaneous or for apparently being connected
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the fact, condition, or state of coinciding
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(modifier) electronics of or relating to a circuit that produces an output pulse only when both its input terminals receive pulses within a specified interval Compare anticoincidence
coincidence gate
Other Word Forms
- noncoincidence noun
- precoincidence noun
- supercoincidence noun
Etymology
Origin of coincidence
First recorded in 1595–1605; coincid(ent) + -ence
Example Sentences
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It was no coincidence that the gold medals that changed an entire team’s fortunes last Thursday went to women.
It could, thus, have been hardly coincidence that Dudamel opened the program with the premiere of “Humboldt’s Nature” by Venezuelan composer Ricardo Lorenz.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s not a coincidence that the Americans have won six of their seven medals in history since that moment.
It’s no coincidence, then, that we spend more time than ever paying attention to things happening outside of our own lives.
From Salon
This made the matching letters about being one of the missing seem more like a coincidence, more like an ordinary seventh-grade prank.
From Literature
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