by coincidence
Example Sentences
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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
Every four years Norway's parliament, the Storting, holds a vote on replacing the monarchy, which by coincidence comes up again on Tuesday, just as the trial at Oslo district court is getting under way.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
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 mutual-neutralization reaction is then measured by coincidence detection of the individual neutral products.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
Completely by coincidence, as we moved back and forth between these churches, I noticed that each one had its own distinct racial makeup: Jubilant church was mixed church.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
