How To Use Coincidence In A Sentence

It's no coincidence that we're in a similar political landscape at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
The similarity between their names is due to coincidence and European mispronunciation -- "Mahican" comes from the word Muheconneok, "from Drag to Playlist WN.com - Articles related to Ten tips for expectant mothers
Not a coincidence is my guess, but no one should confuse causation and correlation. Discourse.net: Perspective
It is no coincidence that he moves fluently between traditional, isolated studio practice and his 13-year commitment to the housing project.
The identity of this woman is known by a remarkable coincidence.

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No-one wants to see a team of cloggers but again it was no coincidence that away from home City conceded just four free-kicks.
Her career is a thread of happy coincidences and social networking, before that became something people did alone and online. Times, Sunday Times
The massive petty crime is implements under the ethyl alcohol function, this by no means coincidence.
After the fourth attack on her car she was convinced that the vandalism was more than just coincidence.
His notion of synchronicity is that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially.
Aman Mojadidi Mr. Mojadidi's use of the word jihad in his work is no coincidence. This 'Jihadi' Is Armed With a Subversive Sense of Humor
However, the coincidence of the onset of the new policies with the economic upturn caused by the improvement in the world economy convinced most that the new consensus was, indeed, the source of economic betterment.
Two lonely souls brought together by happy coincidence? The Sun
He's worried it was just a coincidence the first time. Times, Sunday Times
Get this for a weird coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
Pure coincidence or unashamed public flirting? The Sun
When scientists found out that people who smoked got lung cancer, the result was significant: it wasn't just a coincidence.
&c. The undesignedness of the coincidence thus indirectly brought out is incompatible with forgery. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Of course this could be a coincidence but we can calculate the odds against this.
By Joerg Colberg on January 28, 2004 5: 36 PM sublimate is one of those weblogs that I should have linked to a long time ago. coincidences Conscientious: Weblogs: January 2004 Archives
It can be no coincidence that such universities perform relatively badly in the national student surveys. Times, Sunday Times
We would share stories of mistaken identity, confused publicists and editors, odd coincidences and connections.
CASAREZ: I have to reiterate, that is a very strange coincidence. CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2008
We changed the chief mechanics on the cars and some engineers but it is just a coincidence that we are having a bad run. The Sun
Other coincidences include but are not limited to: 1. The Tule culture which spread eastward from Northern Alaska, across the Arctic Archipelago about 1,000 years ago and then later disappeared. Rutherford, Mann et al [2005] « Climate Audit
From coincidence, to congruence, to harmony, to synergy, the two films have to stand the new ground that they cut.
They show unattainably good cooking, but, no coincidence, also unnaturally ordered kitchens. Times, Sunday Times
It's not a coincidence that I quoted his notions of raciality in fantastical races above. Ishoo Wun
One new museum in a city is a happy incident and two a coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
What a coincidence he should have finally resurfaced at a time when the last cheque is due. The Sun
In a serendipitous coincidence, the Arts Council's new plan included a focus on criticism as an art form.
A chain of spooky coincidences brings a friend back into your life. The Sun
Also a coincidence is the moving of devolution-friendly Huw Irranca from the Welsh Office to DEFRA. Archive 2008-10-01
By coincidence, he lived in my same building where I had just bought an apartment but I still hadn't moved in yet.
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. The Mountebank
In these perpetual lines and curves ran the asymptotical negotiation from beginning to end -- and so it might have run for two centuries, without hope of coincidence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
It's the tale of two contemporary literary academics sleuthing their way into a long lost love affair, and is utterly laden with coincidence.
Lagutin was the subject of a curious coincidence the following day.
Would you have me believe that this regularity is due to coincidence rather than design? My Take of Milton Friedman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
By some strange coincidence, he was passing the house just when it happened.
It was too much of a coincidence for both an electronic disturbance and a triggered bomb to go off simultaneously.
That this has improvement has come since he has been tucked into the centre of midfield from a wide right position may not be a coincidence.
Two lonely souls brought together by happy coincidence? The Sun
the improbability of such rare coincidences
As I understand it, we have the most amazing series of coincidences to thank for our existence. Times, Sunday Times
The Pennine Acute Trust said the timing of the letter was a coincidence and not connected to the Observer story.
One contributor to the programme says: “Is it any coincidence that some individuals made millions selling shares in kosher lamb that very day?” Conspiracy Vault: Emmerdale plane crash - Jews “had prior warning”
He described synchronicity as an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time.
Â Do you think the placement of this dais is a coincidence? Think Progress » ‘Mission Accomplished’ By The Numbers
It is no coincidence that superclusters of galaxies are roughly of this size; they result from this resounding cosmic fanfare.
You have failed in your attempt to convince me of the coincidence between the bourgeois and the human.
By coincidence, both of October's plays were other people's ideas.
It is a coincidence that we should now be hearing their side of the argument, but it is highly relevant.
Cabin staff claimed it was coincidence that the dish of the day was chicken tikka masala.
The marines would have known all about this coincidence. The Times Literary Supplement
He composed using chance, coincidence and idiosyncratic connections. Times, Sunday Times
So attuned is the human mind to look for and find answers that sometimes it extracts meaning where none exists: the face of an old man, a witch, or the image of a monster, seen in an inkspot; psychic portent attributed to mere coincidence; the cry of "why me?" when natural disaster strikes, as if the agent of disaster chooses its victim; the perception of supernatural anger expressed in the violence of an earthquake. The urge to know
Another mere coincidence, say school officials, adding that Tarkanian was adamant about having such a watchdog on staff.
The enormity of what he was about to do had struck home, surely reinforced by two coincidences. Times, Sunday Times
The win was a remarkable coincidence for Hazel, who worked as a domestic cleaner for one of the Turnbull family more than ten years ago.
The word coincidence exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists. Chuck Klosterman on Rock
It's not a coincidence," Gallagher points out, "that the term distracted once referred not just to a loss or dilution of attention but also to confusion, mental imbalance, and even madness. Ward Sutton: Paying Attention in the Information-Overload Age
Mr. Berry said the timing was a coincidence and that his decision was unrelated to Mr. Roman's departure.
That he got there at all was the result of either an amazing coincidence or foul play. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
But if McLeish was the type of person to dally on instances of coincidence and place his faith in fate, he need only look at last term.
Do you think it is just coincidence that 78% of Planned Parenthoods which margaret sanger founded are in black communities? The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism
There's also a mounting seriousness of tone that doesn't sit entirely well with the plot's concatenation of coincidences and unlikelihoods.
Lies, coincidences, plots, and schemes are everywhere, and no one can trust anyone.
Are these a coincidence, or has an evil force engulfed the town?
By an amazing coincidence two of his daughters gave birth to bouncing babies on the same day.
Also, one ex is bad luck, two is a coincidence. The Sun
Reuters New York Giants players Still, the schedule lends credence to Coughlin's insistence that there's no trend to his teams' second-half swoons, just coincidence, and that maybe there's something a tad pat in the idea of an inevitable Giants "collapse. A Study in Second Halves
It is no coincidence that in the remodeling of the lower church at Assisi, the side chapel immediately adjacent to the north transept was dedicated to the Magdalen.
Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.
This coincidence suggests that the D-amino acids originated in peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls.
For any two people with reasonably eventful lives it is possible to find coincidences between them.
After intravenous injection of 5 mCi F18-FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose), all subjects underwent a brain SPECT coincidence scan, which was then superimposed on their MRIs. Naturejobs - All Jobs
The question remains: is the concurrent rise of solar activity and of earthly temperatures a coincidence or a cause-and-effect relationship?
We know the people who bombed the bunkers had a very interesting coincidence of being affected by that.
Quite a remarkable coincidence, isn't it?
In an uncanny coincidence, on the night of its premiere Ferguson scored the only goal of the game in Everton's win over Manchester United.
Are we to believe this is a coincidence, or just because it is too hot down there (that actually might explain a bit, like the relative backwardness of the American south before air-conditioning and "the sunbelt")? Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Small coincidence that the rooster is a popular bird (symbol) in Mexico. Foot on your neck...
As a couple of you have pointed out, it's a remarkable coincidence.
No; the eruption of the Phoebeans closely followed our arrival from a coincidence: which was that I chose to land close to the terminator. ANTI-ICE
It's the type of oddball coincidence that's difficult to ignore.
To the apocalyptist, who literally awaits the Great Uncovering, all coincidence is synchronicity, all accident revelation. A Darker Place
Of course the timing is no coincidence. Anti-Ice
Two lonely souls brought together by happy coincidence? The Sun
And this is no happy coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
`On the other hand," she added irritably, `it's one of those dratted coincidences that get under your skin. STAGE FRIGHT
That, by a remarkable coincidence, is the minimum requirement for inclusion in the rankings.
I do not think these coincidences were consciously contrived.
The great Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to define what he called meaningful coincidences in your life. Knock and the Door Will Open
They rely heavily on felicitous coincidence for the plots, and the character development is cartoonish.
He calls the numerology of the "23 flavors of Dr Pepper" and the Nov. 23 release date "pure coincidence. Ad Track: Dove cleans up; Dunkin' Donuts vs. Starbucks
The undesignedness of the coincidence establishes the genuineness of both the Epistle and the history. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It was no coincidence that the emergence of astrobiology as a respected and, soon after, a hot field of research occurred in the mid- and late 1990s—right as it became clear that the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, 51 Pegasi, would be followed by many more. First Contact
To calculate the joint probability of the coincidence occurring in any one minute we multiply the two separate probabilities.
Is it a coincidence that the burgeoning war between Christianity and Islam seems hell-bent for Armageddon?
Yet another amazing coincidence, to meet in such a small place more than 100 miles from the nearest town!
Remarkable coincidences do happen in real life.
Moreover, one may accept certain unanalysed kinds of coincidence-determination without committing oneself to the inflexible position that these kinds of coincidence-determination are unanalysable.
My first thought was that it was some sort of translation issue -- either H-I-D-E is a perfectly reasonable thing to put on a sign like this in some other language and it's just a coincidence it's spelled like the English word "hide," or the people making it got a really bad translator who chose "hide" to translate whatever sort of warning they were intending to convey. Things that crack me up #48
By coincidence, I saw my first Rose-breasted grosbeak of the season just yesterday, but it was the relatively drab female. Waldo Jaquith - Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.
Identical twins are about to marry a pair of lookalike sisters in a double ceremony next month to cap 25 years of remarkable coincidences.
All coincidence is magick, whether someone specifically charged and released a sigil for it or not.
That is a coincidence, but I wouldnt exactly call it serendipitous. Anything But Typical
And this is no happy coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
This is too unlikely a similarity to be mere coincidence, and it produces the eerie suspicion/sensation that the women are doubles of one another.
Is this all some sort of bizarre coincidence, like deregulation and financial crookery or religious fundamentalism and bizarre rules on human behavior? mrtoads Re: House GOP Leadership Elections - Swampland - TIME.com
I've mentioned before, the strange - to my way of thinking, preternatural - coincidences that often occur.
They all were silent for a moment pondering this bit of cosmic coincidence.
One or two successes can be coincidence: it takes a properly conducted scientific trial to prove effectiveness.
What a coincidence since last week we just recieved a photo of my belle-mere playing petanque with old french men in Britanny (near Gurunhuel where she lives). Petanque - French Word-A-Day
It can be no coincidence that such universities perform relatively badly in the national student surveys. Times, Sunday Times
The reliance on coincidence or the fortuitous is often questionable, but the results at the same time are never quite incredible. Great Scot
But the coincidence of maps, girls, and rocketfalls has entered him silently, silent as ice, and Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways to freeze him. Gravity's Rainbow
If Saudi methods call to mind the deprogramming of brainwashed cult members, that’s no coincidence — Saudi government officials speak of al-Qaeda as a cult, and they believe that deprogramming is exactly what is called for. Get Out of Jihad Free
I wonder if the technical singular “head” is related to Latin caput, as catel indirectly is, or is that just a weird coincidence? What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar
And this is no happy coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
Authentic or not, the fact that both men used essentially the same phrase conceivably could be merely "a pun of destiny," as Arthur Koestler once described the notion of coincidence. A Pun Of Destiny?
There were too many coincidences to take everything in stride as pure happenstance.
In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of "jemmies" being a cant name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession. Oliver Twist
It is unlikely to have been sheer coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
Upton said he called Adar with news of the ruling and was told, "Can you imagine the coincidence? Homepage
The weird coincidence only emerged recently as they shared childhood photos. The Sun
If the name arachnoiditis makes you imagine “land of the spiders,” that’s no coincidence: the nerve network that the immune system begins to demyelinate looks something like a spider web’s intricate fibers spanning out from the lower spinal cord. The Autoimmune Epidemic
And thus, from age to age coincidence was added to coincidence and the result of all this "unpractical" labor was, at long last, a calendar. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
Since the beginning of the Syrian uprisings, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been blessed with several fortuities and coincidences that have allowed him, not only to survive, but to maintain his hold on power. Majid Rafizadeh: Will Assad Survive?
Such coincidences will prey on all connections today, along with their ritual superstitions of lucky shirts and suits. Times, Sunday Times
Some of your characters seem to end up being real - by pure coincidence. The Sun
She and I both arrived at the same time by pure coincidence.
It is probably no coincidence that the issues the Tories are keen to appear concerned about - gay rights, ethnic minority rights, women's rights, saving the planet, international aid, single-motherhood, misunderstood 'yoof' etc, etc - are just the issues which the broadcast media are so very enthusiastic about. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It is one of those happy coincidences that it happened to occur at the same time as the global rediscovery of what they call burlesque. Times, Sunday Times
In their estimation, nothing could explain the coincidences except the momentary passing of a gravitational wave.
By happy coincidence, Robert met Richard and Julia and discovered they were experiencing similar problems.
Last October veterans of that battle sprung into action with a Hands off our Forest HOOF campaign, helped by the coincidence that Labour's leader in the Lords, ex-cabinet minister, Jan Royall, is herself a local "forester". Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn
In a piece labelled ‘The Crow Files’, the newspaper wrote, ‘It is no coincidence that the bull-necked, bullhorn-voiced Mr Crow is an ardent support of Millwall football club, whose thuggish fans rejoice in their unpopularity’.
It's no coincidence that protagonists from '80s-era, Reagan-era games are these testosterone, muscle-bound rah-rah characters," he said. A conversation with video game exhibition curator Chris Melissinos
The plot of the novel relies too much on coincidence to be realistic.
Some of your characters seem to end up being real - by pure coincidence. The Sun
In an unlucky coincidence today it outlined a rescue issue of convertible bonds and warrants.
And is it just a coincidence that "deified" is a palindrome? Kosher Candidates
She and I both arrived at the same time by pure coincidence.
We can even make sense of such a coincidence in the case of events such as battles and headaches.
What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family.
I gave up the yearnings for a boyfriend at about 30, when I bought my first house, which may or may not be a coincidence.
By a fortuitous coincidence, it involves some real handcuffs.
It beggars belief to think that these concurrent developments are mere coincidences.
By coincidence, I got there a few minutes before Bob Hager, who had an appointment.
No, it's not just a coincidence, it is circumstantial evidence of his guilt.
It is mere coincidence that David Aaronovitch (that free-thinking independent journalist) used the same stinking ninth category jab in the Observer blog?
It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe's regaining consciousness.
Yet the most amazing thing about all of this is that it is just a coincidence.
You chose exactly the same wallpaper as us - what a coincidence!
Was it some twist on coincidence that we somehow, someway found each other?
Some of your characters seem to end up being real - by pure coincidence. The Sun
That he got there at all was the result of either an amazing coincidence or foul play. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Herzog's parade of oddball commentators and his own inimitably dry delivery of such coincidences as the close proximity to this cave of albino crocodiles make this, too, a beguiling experience of wonderment. Berlin film festival – review
It was only a series of coincidences that saw Gary enter the theatrical world, instead of the world of joinery.
What an amazing coincidence!
I took a little walk; by a curious coincidence, I found a new white species of Planaria, and a new to me Vaginulus (third species which I have found in S. America) of Cuvier. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
And by some huge noncoincidence, an upstart telecom company has emerged with a business plan that mirrors those requirements. Political Favors at the FCC
Paris, who published the Histoire de Chams – Eddine et Nour – Eddine with Maghrabi punctuation (Paris, Hachette, 1852) remarks the similarity of this word to Tazza and a number of other whimsical coincidences as Zauj, jugum; Inkár, negare; matrah, matelas; The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The timing is no coincidence. Times, Sunday Times
The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good. Times, Sunday Times
Do you think it is just coincidence that 78% of Planned Parenthoods (which margaret sanger founded) are in black communities? The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism
I've always thought of it as an "ancient" term that ceased to be current around 900 or so - perhaps not by coincidence, about the time the term Scot shows with relation to northern Britain. The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name?
By one of those strange coincidences, however, that drive comic novels, Gutman finds himself accidentally dispatching one of his tormentors, a horribly over-confident and over-articulate graduate student by the name of Dirck van Camper, and subsequently presents an essay of van Camper's, entitled "Total Mindfuck: A Study in Ethics and Embodiment," as his own. Posthegemony
To calculate the joint probability of the coincidence occurring in any one minute we multiply the two separate probabilities.
This situation isn't her fault or yours, just an unlucky coincidence. The Sun
Entry tags: strange coincidences, the internet is a series of tubes if you like double helixes ... Intertribal: if you like double helixes...
Each person that we meet in life is a chance coincidence , and a unique encounter.
Purple Koolaid: Do you think it is just coincidence that 78% of Planned Parenthoods which margaret sanger founded are in black communities? The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism
Purple Koolaid: Do you think it is just coincidence that 78% of Planned Parenthoods (which margaret sanger founded) are in black communities? The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism
By a strange coincidence we happened to be travelling on the same train.
The coincidence with union action boded ill for the survey; response rates to the questionnaire seemed likely to be very low.
Rather than a conflict of two opposing principles, parallax names “the inherent ‘tension,’ gap, noncoincidence” of reality with itself. Wednesday, May 31, 2006
It's no coincidence, I'd say, that Isaac Asimov wrote both science fiction and murder mysteries, or that the Illuminatus Trilogy and similar works appeal to many sf readers, or that noir is everywhere in strange fiction these days, even secondary world fantasy. Archive 2010-01-01
The reason is a coincidence of higher oil prices and low taxes. Times, Sunday Times
In a stunning coincidence of historical synchronicity, today is also the anniversary of the start of World War I.
By coincidence John Shimer was also in Southampton, on the gang plank, only feet away from the ‘Two Millionth Yank’, who embarked for France on January 16, 1945.
What - to go back to very first principles - is at the heart of an art that is underwritten by no mere etymological coincidence: lyre as musical instrument; lyric as literary text?
This theme is played out through a dozen strangers who become related by artfully contrived coincidence.
So when these things happen, one does not say: that was an extraordinary coincidence, which negatived the causal connection between the original act of accumulating the polluting substance and its escape.
the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable
An actuary, assuming no casual connection, might calculate the odds against such a coincidence.
Although it's possibly no coincidence the most entertaining performances came from elsewhere. The Sun
We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.
It was a happy coincidence that Brecht's theory of alienation was inspired by folk tales and folk theatre, which relied a lot on story-telling.
I'm sure it was pure coincidence but the second wave of women began arriving Just as the lunchtime news began. Times, Sunday Times
The plot, veering between slavish adherence and badly conceived alterations, has become incomprehensible, driven by coincidence of the implausible rather than that of the existential variety.
It took a number of coincidences and lots of good luck to release this strong spirit of enterprise hidden in them.
Luck isn't due to kismet, karma, or coincidence, he says.
It was pure coincidence that they were both in Paris on the same day.
By coincidence, the restaurant was across the street from where Bradbury was hawking newspapers.
And the rest is what we call divine creative coincidence. Stacie Krajchir: Dear Hollywood: Meet Four Industry Guys Who Left Los Angeles And Found Their Heartstrings In The Middle Of A Homeless Camp In Denver
I didn't tell him about the handbill I had found; indeed, I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence.
Whilst some say cases such as these are mere coincidence others believe they are miracles and signs from God.

How To Use Coincidence In A Sentence

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