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

Another possibility is that some early dinosaurs happened to have feet that closely resembled bird feet by coincidence.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

Purely by coincidence, 1990 is when “Boots” begins.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

And whether by coincidence or coordination, a month after Clark joined the league, commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced teams would be traveling by charter flights this season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

The evidence is circumstantial, but it’s hard to imagine that Sapiens, just by coincidence, arrived in Australia at the precise point that all these animals were dropping dead of the chills.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari