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as in coincident
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the nearly coincidental deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa
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as in attending
present at the same time and place
claims a connection between the proliferation of fast-food restaurants and the coincidental surge in the rate of obesity
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Recent Examples of coincidental
So to me, all of this is not a totally coincidental match.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Jan. 2026
That feels a little too coincidental, but that’s the story I was told.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
The timing is not coincidental.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
And while the timing may be coincidental, the tightening comes as some CEOs mandate using artificial intelligence to accomplish work tasks before requesting more headcount.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Jan. 2026
That feels a little too coincidental, but that’s the story I was told.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
The timing is not coincidental.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
And while the timing may be coincidental, the tightening comes as some CEOs mandate using artificial intelligence to accomplish work tasks before requesting more headcount.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coincidental
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Regional banks bounced a bit, still down a couple percent on the week, as Thursday’s flush lower amid a few separate but coincident credit hiccups exacerbated underlying unease with the opaque and possibly lax lending across private credit and among smaller commercial banks.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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The coincident new Moon contributes no light pollution, making 2025 ideal for Orionid viewing.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
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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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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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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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“Coincidental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincidental. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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