coincide
verb (used without object)
to occupy the same place in space, the same point or period in time, or the same relative position.
were coinciding
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past progressiveof coincide.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“I had this really big gig where all my childhood dreams were coinciding with my drag, and then I got an email message saying the party was canceled,” she told me.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
Michael Allen, community partnership specialist with the National Park Service in Charleston, said it was ironic that the current events were coinciding with "a historical event that represented a sea change in America."
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2015
By 1690 it was already evident that the frontier of settlement and the frontier of military defense were coinciding.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
