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coincidence

[koh-in-si-duhns] / koʊˈɪn sɪ dəns /




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She later posted a photograph with her doppelganger, joking that the resemblance was "pure coincidence, not strategy".

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

It can't be a coincidence that a song she wrote after signing her divorce papers became her breakthrough hit.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Statisticians I have consulted insist that it’s almost certainly a coincidence that those three particularly terrible months for the market happened to occur in October.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

So it’s no coincidence that Evenepoel is a multiple world and Olympic champion in the individual time trial, a pure exercise of power and efficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

What if somehow I’m wrong about this and it’s just a strange coincidence?

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

No exotic assumptions or rare coincidences were necessary.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

As many a TV detective likes to say, there are no such thing as coincidences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Wright gave evidence, arguing many of the prosecution's arguments were coincidences.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

That enigmatic response got the team at the brokerage Baird to look for coincidences between Dorsey and Satoshi.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025

A series of small coincidences that we say means everything because we want to believe that our tiny lives matter on a galactic scale.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon




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