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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Recent Examples of coincidentally
Hill, coincidentally a Duke product like Flagg and Knueppel, was that season’s leading All-Star game vote-getter among all players, not just rookies.
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Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 28 Mar. 2026
No 70-year-old head coach has won a national championship since Lute Olson with Arizona in 1997, which was coincidentally the last time that a school west of Waco, Texas, won the national title.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system, which has been tested in the minor leagues and MLB spring training, will make its debut Wednesday night in the MLB season opener, when the San Francisco Giants play host to the New York Yankees — coincidentally in America’s high tech capital.
—Juliette Arcodia, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
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Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 28 Mar. 2026
No 70-year-old head coach has won a national championship since Lute Olson with Arizona in 1997, which was coincidentally the last time that a school west of Waco, Texas, won the national title.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system, which has been tested in the minor leagues and MLB spring training, will make its debut Wednesday night in the MLB season opener, when the San Francisco Giants play host to the New York Yankees — coincidentally in America’s high tech capital.
—Juliette Arcodia, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coincidentally
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Baltimore had coincidently fallen 17 points below its scoring average, and the Ravens fell to 1-3 for the first time since 2015 — a campaign that ended with a 5-11 record.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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In Oshkosh, Franki runs a foundation that fights teen suicide and, coincidently, the office space sits in an old George Webb location.—
Jack Albright,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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At Arapahoe Community College, 65% of their overall enrollment are high school students who are concurrently enrolled, and the campus is leading the way by offering concurrent enrollment opportunities to students.—
Ashley Portillo,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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An easy comparison with the version available concurrently on PPOV showed the omission of Sidney Sweeney’s partial nudity in the steamy scenes that helped turn Paul Feig’s rebooting of the 1990s erotic thriller into one of the year’s megahits.—
Gustavo Turner,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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Beata Olsson felt boot meet ball and simultaneously the distances travelled to reach it.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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At the core of the system is a compact chip containing an array of tiny lasers that transmit multiple data streams simultaneously.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Coincidentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincidentally. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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