as in coincidently
at one and the same time
the final stages of the Napoleonic Wars were fought coincidentally with the U.S.-British conflict known as the War of 1812
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The monastery coincidentally served as a French abbey’s outpost amid increasing tensions between France and England in the years leading up to the Hundred Years’ War.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
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Those, coincidentally, are the same odds the bookies are giving the Warriors.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
To wit: Rock Hudson and Doris Day in the romantic comedy Pillow Talk, which, coincidentally enough, features an apartment with a view of the Queensboro Bridge, just like Sorry, Wrong Number does.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Those, coincidentally, are the same odds the bookies are giving the Warriors.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Khloe coincidentally posted to me the night before my surgery, and ultimately ended up paying for the procedure given how much my sales skyrocketed afterwards.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
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“Coincidentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincidentally. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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