by coincidence
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Not by coincidence, Evy discovers that she is herself pregnant, though she hasn’t told her boyfriend, with whom she was living before moving into her mother’s house for the latter’s final days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Traditionally, they vote once in every parliament on a republican motion to abolish the monarchy and the motion came up by coincidence on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
If it looks more like a Mazzone offense, that’s not by coincidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Days before I sat down for my conversation with John Lithgow, and purely by coincidence, I watched “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” for the first time in decades.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2024
The evidence is circumstantial, but it’s hard to imagine that Sapiens, just by coincidence, arrived in Australia at the precise point that all these animals were dropping dead of the chills.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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