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by coincidence

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Through an accidental simultaneous occurrence, as in By coincidence both researchers discovered the same solution. [Mid-1600s] Also see by chance.

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accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedly, unintentionally, unwittingly

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by and large, by any means, by any stretch, by chance, by choice, by coincidence, by cracky, by definition, by degrees, by design, by dint of
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