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• n  an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
• n  the quality of occupying the same position or area in space
  he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs
• n  the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
  the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable

• Without coincidence, there would be few movies worth watching (''Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine''), and literary plots would come .
• More than half of Americans believe in ''anomalous phenomena'' like clairvoyance, unexplained coincidence, prayer healing and psychokinesis.
• Coincidence? Well, having sun on your wedding day is a coincidence, too.

• happenstance
• concurrence
• conjunction
• co-occurrence

News & Articles

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• Tribe's big bats aren't producing (Speaking of Sports)
  One team struggling, two sluggers not slugging. Coincidence? Discuss. Ok, Let’s. Nick Swisher and Jason Giambi are supposed to be big bats in the Indians’ lineup. That’s SUPPOSED to be. So far? Not so much.
  June 14, 2013 - The Morning Journal
• Baseball: Dodgers' draft picks a case of northern exposure
  The Dodgers' first two picks in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft had a fair amount in common, including what some may see as a minor coincidence.
  June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Daily News
• From WKYC.COM / TV 3
  It may just be a coincidence but 911 will be the sentencing date for the last of five suspects in a scheme to blow up a northeast Ohio bridge — a plot that was actually an FBI sting.
  June 13, 2013 - 89.7 WKSU

Quotes

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• Oliver Bierhoff in Times of India
  It's not the case, Ballack visited the team in Sicily before the tournament and it was always agreed that he would visit for the quarter-final. It is an unfortunate coincidence that Ballack's departure and Lahm's statement coincided,Bierhoff...
• Costas Karamanlis in Malaysia Sun
  In a nationally televised address, Costas Karamanlis said: "So many fires breaking out simultaneously in so many parts of the country cannot be a coincidence."
• Pamela Melroy in Houston Chronicle
  This is really a special event,said Melroy. "It is a coincidence, and to me that is one of the best parts about it. This is not something that was planned or orchestrated in any way."