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as in accompanying
present at the same time and place
the hard economic times and the coincident increase in crime were a double strain on the city's social services
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as in coinciding
occupying the same space
a study to determine whether the areas with the highest family incomes were coincident with the locations boasting the highest percentage of college graduates
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as in synchronous
existing or occurring at the same period of time
coincident changes in the region's demographic makeup that were little noted at the time
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Recent Examples of coincident
Approximately coincident with this article’s publication, Amazon blocked sales of the Flipper Zero and Brazil banned all imports of the device.
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Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
The tendency of policymakers to date has been to view the harms from internet platforms not as systemic, but as a series of coincident issues.
—Roger McNamee, Wired, 24 July 2021
Several of our hottest summers in the past decade have been coincident with developing La Niñas.
—Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
The researchers say the onset of rapid warming at the summit is coincident with a weakening and shifting in the polar vortex that began in the mid-1980s.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2013
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Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
The tendency of policymakers to date has been to view the harms from internet platforms not as systemic, but as a series of coincident issues.
—Roger McNamee, Wired, 24 July 2021
Several of our hottest summers in the past decade have been coincident with developing La Niñas.
—Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
The researchers say the onset of rapid warming at the summit is coincident with a weakening and shifting in the polar vortex that began in the mid-1980s.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coincident
Adjective
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The accompanying article noted that this amounted to a difference of 624,000 people compared with the same week last year.—
Monica Hesse,
Washington Post,
13 Feb. 2026
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On August 20, 2011, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a blog post—and an accompanying essay in The Wall Street Journal—that would become the sacred texts of the Silicon Valley bull run.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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More than half the day has to be live for it to be considered synchronous.—
Jenny Porter Tilley,
IndyStar,
26 Jan. 2026
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So instead, to keep costs down and power up, the Starcloud satellite flies what is known as a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, circling the planet at a near vertical 83° angle that carries it over the poles and keeps it almost constantly exposed to the sun.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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For Manuel, the moral universe of the golf course — as well as the game itself — functions as an underlying metaphor for the Philippines’ cycles of political stasis.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Healthcare costs remain an ongoing topic across organizations, even as the underlying mechanics of how they are calculated and distributed can be complex.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Saylor on Friday imposed a sentence of 12 months concurrent imprisonment on each charge in the newer case, with 11 months to be served concurrently with Tran’s sentence on the last trial and one month consecutive.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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The college has enrolled 3,412 high school students in concurrent credit classes, according to the release.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Train derailments are a rare and serious matter, considered by the Federal Transit Administration to be a major safety event with all of the attendant reporting and paperwork.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The lack of individual cost caps can result in things like the drastic increase in utilization of such programs as attendant care, which was one of the drivers of the $1 billion budget shortfall in 2023.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
3 Feb. 2026
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For his last runway collection, unveiled in September, Michele constructed a parallel universe of side-by-side shows separated by a wall that when lifted revealed twins in identical looks in synchronic stride.—
Colleen Barry,
Fortune,
24 Nov. 2022
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With a lockable synchronic-tilt mechanism and special Z-Shape design, the Kaiser 2 can accommodate a weight up to 180kg, quite a bit more than normal mechanisms on office chairs and the back can be reclined to an angle of 160 degrees which can be locked when not in rocking mode.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2021
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Long-term impact Gregg Phillips, an associated administrator at FEMA, said its disaster relief fund has sufficient balances to continue emergency response activities during a shutdown, but would become seriously strained in the event of a catastrophic disaster.—
Kevin Freking,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Of course, this coincides with the rise of fentanyl in the illicit drug supply and its associated carnage.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
11 Feb. 2026
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Summer interest from Roma, also owned by The Friedkin Group, was described as more coincidental, even though the clubs in theory use the same data bank.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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But maybe that’s coincidental, or this is being planned.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Coincident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincident. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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