coincidence

Example Sentences

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It pounced upon the coincidence that James Joyce, the Dada poet and essayist Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich in 1917.

From The Wall Street Journal

But thanks to a quirk of coincidence, she ended up having a front-row seat to history.

From Los Angeles Times

Adding to the coincidence, the Colburn School had programmed Sunday in its smaller Thayer Hall, Brahms’ First String Quintet as part of one of its chamber music programs.

From Los Angeles Times

But for the creators of "Zootopia," these parallels with current events are simply a coincidence of timing for a story intended to be timeless and which took several years to develop.

From Barron's

They note that it’s more than just a coincidence that many major U.S. bear markets occur after a bull market has lasted about one generation.

From MarketWatch