coincidence
Example Sentences
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"But when it happens four, five or six times over the season, that's just not a coincidence."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
Earlier research from the same team used Mendelian randomization, a genetic research method that helps scientists separate cause from coincidence, to investigate the connection.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
Barreiro Leon says it is no coincidence that former Soviet bloc countries such Estonia and Latvia won in the early 2000s before joining the EU.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Otherwise it would just be a major coincidence that Rubio and Marine Corps Gen. Francis L. Donovan, commander of Southern Command, posed for a photo in front of a map of Cuba.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
“It may have been a coincidence, but Herod Sayle was there at the same time. The two of them may have met. And there is something else.”
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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Wonder
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Twelve Angry Men
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