Synonym: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction, happenstance. Similar words: coincide, incident, evidence, residence, confidence, accident, accidental, by accident. Meaning: [kəʊ'ɪnsɪdəns] n. 1. an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental 2. the quality of occupying the same position or area in space 3. the temporal property of two things happening at the same time.
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91. You have failed in your attempt to convince me of the coincidence between the bourgeois and the human.
92. Logic suggests this can not be reduced to mere coincidence.
93. I forgot all about Svetlana until 1989 when a remarkable coincidence brought us together again.
94. Martha said it was too much of a coincidence that she should have eaten tainted food on two occasions so close together.
95. This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence.
96. The odds against such a coincidence are unimaginably great but they are not incalculably great.sentencedict.com
97. Conversely, we can see that the unhappy coincidence of an invalid self-description and a negative evaluation creates a disastrous scenario.
98. Yet his spokesperson was quick to explain that this was coincidence, not a coded reference to the coalition bargaining in Vienna.
99. I didn't tell him about the handbill I had found; indeed, I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence.
100. This fact questions any easy assumption about a necessary elitist coincidence of interest amongst the armed services.
101. It had stayed alive in the family because of a tragic coincidence.
102. One or two successes can be coincidence: it takes a properly conducted scientific trial to prove effectiveness.
103. It has happened too often to me to be mere coincidence.
104. It is no coincidence that combat soldiers, particularly paratroops, wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard's spotted coat.
105. It was a fortunate coincidence that the police were passing by just then.
106. It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector.
107. It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred.
108. This coincidence between indexing and user approach is known as user warrant.
109. Was it relevant to his enquiry, or just a curious coincidence?
110. She was secretly hoping that by some magic coincidence, Alan might phone while she was watching the tape.
111. Whether it was pure coincidence or something deeper in his make-up, Fran had no idea.
112. Her first known employer was Susanna Jennens. The identity of this woman is known by a remarkable coincidence.
113. Horne sniggered to himself. Strange coincidence, the same place where Whitton had met his death.
114. The coincidence between let and the infinitive is slightly obscured here by the use of let as an imperative.
115. It's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow - this was the Communist old guard's parting shot.
116. Yet another amazing coincidence, to meet in such a small place more than 100 miles from the nearest town!
117. How far are you prepared to stretch the long arm of coincidence?
118. It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe's regaining consciousness.
119. Franco was assisted in the orchestration of this propaganda exercise by a convenient coincidence of the calendar.
120. Lagutin was the subject of a curious coincidence the following day.
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