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  • It would still be an incredible coincidence for another person to have stabbed the father with the same kind of knife.   (source)
    coincidence = a situation where two things happened the same by chance even though it was unlikely
  • Built up a nightmare of superstition and fantasy all because of the coincidence of two deaths!   (source)
    coincidence = a chance occurrence that seems like it was arranged
  • Don't you think that is a very strange coincidence?   (source)
    coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
  • "It ain't no damn coincidence that somebody's trying to scare us the night before she testifies to the grand jury," Daddy says.†   (source)
  • It was a coincidence, she said.†   (source)
  • Walking back to the truck, neither one of us commented about what most non— Afghans would have seen as an improbable coincidence, that a beggar on the street would happen to know my mother.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's just a coincidence, Jules.†   (source)
  • I knew the timing couldn't be a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Coincidence?†   (source)
  • He said it was an incredible coincidence that he happened to be walking by.†   (source)
  • An all-points bulletin turned up a missing person named McCandless from eastern South Dakota, coincidentally from a small town only twenty miles from Wayne Westerberg's home in Carthage, and for a while the troopers thought they'd found their man.†   (source)
  • Phil went to a squadron meeting, where he met a rookie pilot, George "Smitty" Smith, by coincidence a close friend of Cecy's.†   (source)
  • An unfortunate coincidence is all it was.†   (source)
  • Phoebe looked extensively relieved, but I knew it was not a coincidence that her father was there.†   (source)
  • "What a happy coincidence," Chuck Muckle said.†   (source)
  • The judge says she's a pawn and Otis Amber says he's the king, Crow's the queen— Oh well, it's probably just a coincidence.†   (source)
  • I was still too young to be a believer in coincidence.†   (source)
  • You swam in a river of chance and coincidence.†   (source)
  • I bet you that wasn't a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's the same kind of coincidence that keeps African Americans from getting cabs in New York.†   (source)
  • Wang's night had been filled with coincidences:†   (source)
  • Just a coincidence, but I also read that cyberattacks on the Department of Defense have stepped up an order of magnitude.†   (source)
  • It is no coincidence that the cities from which your examples spring are port cities: Marseille and New York.†   (source)
  • In an eerie coincidence, the younger brother's name was the same as mine.†   (source)
  • "The mass exodus of the children of Abnegation leaders cannot be ignored or attributed to coincidence," he reads.†   (source)
  • These are common names in Tamil Nadu, so the coincidence is not so remarkable.†   (source)
  • Their agreement was too great for coincidence.†   (source)
  • Can't be a coincidence.†   (source)
  • "Coincidence," said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice.†   (source)
  • Maybe that was just a coincidence.†   (source)
  • And are you saying it was just a coincidence that you were coming out of the store at that time?†   (source)
  • The world ain't made a coincidences only.†   (source)
  • Just a coincidence.†   (source)
  • You think that's a coincidence?†   (source)
  • It's just a coincidence that only Catholics go there?†   (source)
  • "What a coincidence," muttered Rose.†   (source)
  • But it was a coincidence that the cop had spoken to her right after she'd seen them, right?†   (source)
  • It's no answer, of course, to believe in accidents, or in coincidences; but is God really a better answer?†   (source)
  • Nothing is a coincidence.†   (source)
  • I was especially curious after you told me you were adopted, but again, I thought maybe it was a coincidence.†   (source)
  • The name was just a weird coincidence, but it left me with an uncanny feeling I couldn't shake.†   (source)
  • Any act of rebellion was purely coincidental.†   (source)
  • She read it again before she went to bed that night, trying to fathom the coincidence, and read it again the next morning as if to make sure the whole thing wasn't a dream.†   (source)
  • It's a coincidence, it can't be them.†   (source)
  • The neighbours and relations also saw the coincidence and said among themselves that it was very significant.†   (source)
  • Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences.†   (source)
  • It is a strange coincidence, is it not, that two such gifted children should be admitted to the Institute at the very same time, and that they should be such close friends?†   (source)
  • I suggested it was merely a coincidence, but no one was too impressed by that.†   (source)
  • But I thought it was quite a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just a coincidence, but it looked like a high-tech, super-size version of that ruined reflecting pool he'd seen in his dreams, with those two dark masses jutting from either end.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure that what I am about to describe really rates as a startling coincidence.†   (source)
  • Such amazing connections and strange coincidences had brought three worlds together: the world of children in japan, George in Canada, and the lost world of a Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia who died so long ago.†   (source)
  • Pedro, what a coincidence!†   (source)
  • Of course, this was not coincidence, not at all.†   (source)
  • It was a horrible coincidence, her being Susie's friend.†   (source)
  • Coincidental?†   (source)
  • It seemed an extraordinary coincidence now, but somehow hadn't then.†   (source)
  • Not sarcastic, but like he thought it was a cool coincidence, and for about a month I went around thinking we had this special connection based on babies.†   (source)
  • One of the side effects of work on the Heart of Gold was a whole string of pretty meaningless coincidences.†   (source)
  • She had stopped talking at the same time; a miraculous coincidence.†   (source)
  • I just wanted my sisters and my best friend, who, coincidentally, I'd met during my Selection.†   (source)
  • He peeked out through the letter box and, oh happy coincidence, there was a pair of goggled eyes peeking right back at him.†   (source)
  • Then, by coincidence—just as I was realizing I really couldn't wait much longer before I did something—I happened to see a tiny black and white photo of the painting in the business section of the Times.†   (source)
  • And a letter from Grammy, right on time, but of course that was just a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Standing there, I realize something else: that it wasn't a coincidence whenever Carol made fun of me for still believing in the Invalids, whenever she would shake her head without bothering to look up from her knitting needles—tic, tic, tic, they went together, flashing metal—and say, "I suppose you believe in vampires and werewolves, too?"†   (source)
  • It feels like some kind of cosmic coincidence.†   (source)
  • It's not a coincidence, that's for sure.†   (source)
  • "It's just a horrible, miserable coincidence," she'd told me.†   (source)
  • It seemed like an incredible coincidence that he had been named after the first Rider.†   (source)
  • Try as they might, they just couldn't believe it was a coincidence that the town in which they were to live had a building that looked just like the tattoo of Count Olaf.†   (source)
  • The first time was one of those strange coincidences.†   (source)
  • When she became my mother years later, she and I would always talk about whether it was destined or coincidental that I came from a very storytelling-oriented culture to live with a mother in New York who is a storyteller.†   (source)
  • Little chance of coincidence there.†   (source)
  • Now there was a coincidence.†   (source)
  • It might have been nothing more than a coincidence, but nevertheless, I felt an exultant smile overflow my face.†   (source)
  • Taro loved strangers, said Kuniko, but he was very frightened of earthworms; and by a most peculiar coincidence, so was Kuniko.†   (source)
  • He seemed thrilled, though it wasn't that big of a coincidence in a school this small.†   (source)
  • She tells herself the coincidence of finding his résumé, of stumbling upon him in this way, is too great, that anyone in her position would pick up the phone and call.†   (source)
  • The waitress said her daughter's name was Chloe, and we both smiled at the coincidence.†   (source)
  • The piece of driftwood raises issues of luck and coincidence, serendipity rather than planning.†   (source)
  • By coincidence, she's the daughter of a carpenter from Cleveland, and after reading about Mr. Ayers, she thought he needed the piano more than she did.†   (source)
  • And of course it was impossible not to notice the sharp coincidence between her arrival and the discovery of the guns.†   (source)
  • You are the prisoners of circumstance, of coincidence and chance if you believe in such things.†   (source)
  • There were no coincidences.†   (source)
  • By coincidence or out of some malignant expression of humor, the house was located right behind the city morgue, a few blocks north of City Hall.†   (source)
  • Was it coincidence that joy and power imperceptibly drained from my ministry?†   (source)
  • It seemed like too much of a coincidence that those snipers had set up so perfectly.†   (source)
  • All the girls but Rachel generally ran ragged, so this must have been—for our family—a Sunday, a coincidence of our big day and the villagers'.†   (source)
  • Wish fulfillment plus a lucky coincidence.†   (source)
  • Once they met an acquaintance of Saeed's and this seemed an almost impossible and happy coincidence, like two leaves blown from the same tree by a hurricane landing on top of each other far away, and it cheered Saeed greatly.†   (source)
  • I told him no—it's a coincidence that it looked like mine.†   (source)
  • By coincidence, we heard about a flight heading to that same base; the Ranger and I headed over to try to get onto the helicopter.†   (source)
  • The card read: Dear Hilde, Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.†   (source)
  • If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater meta-ethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages.†   (source)
  • And I can feel at least that I may have helped, because I cannot believe it could be a coincidence that Megan disappeared the day after I saw her with that man.†   (source)
  • Coincidentally, also in Chattanooga, a Briarcrest tennis player was playing a tournament at the fancy local country club.†   (source)
  • Too much of a coincidence.†   (source)
  • His favorite TV show was The Simpsons, and not by coincidence, he spoke in a slightly high-pitched intonation and sometimes with a surprisingly knowing tone that sounded a lot like Bart Simpson himself.†   (source)
  • Phillip believed that all the coincidences surrounding him from his kidnapping of me and getting away with it to present-day things like his parole officers' inability to hold him for anything were not just mere coincidence, but the work of the angels.†   (source)
  • So then I started pulling out my coincidences.†   (source)
  • On this Pentecost, in a rare coincidence, two extraordinary events had occurred: the death of a friend and the silver anniversary of an eminent pupil.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there was such a bizarre coincidence that Salander's antennae instantly buzzed.†   (source)
  • Well, isn't that a coincidence!†   (source)
  • Does he know it belongs to Ky or is it coincidence that he picked the Markhams' house as the hiding place?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Livingston can tell that Harriet—a modern, bobbed-hair girl, a college graduate—is not convinced by dreams and coincidences.†   (source)
  • And the thought of coincidence never entered their minds.†   (source)
  • Isn't this a bit coincidental?†   (source)
  • I think it's a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Jordan had a point about how impossible the coincidence was, but Abby wasn't the sort to mess with them for kicks.†   (source)
  • That doesn't feel like a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Upon noticing this curious coincidence, the gentlemen then gained an ambition to visit the three villages in question — in honour, as it were, of the music hall artistes.†   (source)
  • It looks like countless other retail strips in Orange County — and the resemblance is hardly coincidental.†   (source)
  • I mulled over this string of 24s and Larry's statement to me—"There is no such thing as coincidence"—all the way through my arrival in San Diego the following night.†   (source)
  • But then, call it coincidence, call it plot, the man's gun went off again in the distance, and I realized he was in the orange grove hunting.†   (source)
  • And what a coincidence.†   (source)
  • It was a "lucky coincidence" for him that river traffic had been halted and that police and paramedics were so close by.†   (source)
  • "That's a coincidence," Shiva went on.†   (source)
  • I mean, the coincidence!†   (source)
  • What had they discovered that could not be interpreted as plausible, though exceptional, coincidence?†   (source)
  • It was just a coincidence.†   (source)
  • They had been tracking down the source of the American counterfeit money that showed up in Morocco, and by coincidence arrived at the Chelsea just seconds after the FBI.†   (source)
  • It is coincidence and nothing more.†   (source)
  • It's a coincidence we're on the same flight.†   (source)
  • Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences.†   (source)
  • There was a slight coincidence here.†   (source)
  • And last night's affair seemed to overlay the landscape as Matty drove west on Interstate 10 through a town called Deming, which was Eric's last name of course, and how clammy was the hand of coincidence—faces, places and provocative remarks all running through his mind.†   (source)
  • It was no coincidence, in other words, that J. T. was the leader of this crack gang.†   (source)
  • There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens.†   (source)
  • It's hard to believe that it's a coincidence this anomaly happens every seven years, with its start on your birthday.†   (source)
  • "Well," Luke says, leaning his forehead against mine and smiling, "isn't that a coincidence."†   (source)
  • It could have been coincidence.†   (source)
  • On the strength of this coincidence he'd asked her out.†   (source)
  • You think it's a coincidence he 'helps out' in the kitchens?†   (source)
  • We were as excited as schoolgirls to discover this improbable coincidence and we knew we had lots to talk about.†   (source)
  • Isn't that a coincidence!†   (source)
  • But the most chilling coincidence — the one that gave me an eerie feeling — was that he died of leukemia, cousin of the same degenerative disease that was coursing through me.†   (source)
  • Jackie asked her husband, referring to the ship, when she learned of this coincidence.†   (source)
  • Coincidence?†   (source)
  • That John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had died on the same day, and that it was, of all days, the Fourth of July, could not be seen as a mere coincidence: it was a "visible and palpable" manifestation of "Divine favor," wrote John Quincy in his diary that night, expressing what was felt and would be said again and again everywhere the news spread.†   (source)
  • Maybe coincidence?†   (source)
  • That's an interesting coincidence.†   (source)
  • Was it coincidence, Eve wondered, or design that he stood at equal distance between his father and wife?†   (source)
  • A coincidence.†   (source)
  • A tissue of their former lives connected many of the onrushing warriors: ironies, coincidences of place and memory, overlapping fragments of their boyhoods.†   (source)
  • Both men were delighted by their coincidental meeting.†   (source)
  • Probably just a coincidence, but kind of funny just the same.†   (source)
  • Many pendulum rides take the form of large boats, and it's probably no coincidence that a number of people find this ride evokes in them the same sense of seasickness that a real boat produces.†   (source)
  • The mainland county schoolboard, which managed the island school more by neglect than anything else, suddenly, and without explanation, sent the school a piano the year Caroline and I were in the fifth grade, and the next year, by what could only have been the happiest of coincidences, the new teacher appointed as half of the high school staff was a young man who not only knew how to play a piano but had the talent and strength of will to organize a chorus.†   (source)
  • It was simply an obscene coincidence.†   (source)
  • There was a certain irony in the coincidence, an omen if one could believe in such things.†   (source)
  • Let us call it a happy coincidence.†   (source)
  • However, if they knew him at all, the journalists would have been assured that Lewis Tappan never left events to the chances of coincidence, especially when substantial representation from the press was guaranteed.†   (source)
  • This was a matter of coincidence rather than design; the senior ANC leadership on the island, the only four to have served on the National Executive Committee, happened to be Xhosa.†   (source)
  • Though the Little League draw was supposedly made by random selection, Cesar couldn't help but wonder if being paired against the only other Mexican team for the opening game was a coincidence.†   (source)
  • But the smallest coincidence could draw him back.†   (source)
  • Still, he answered truthfully, because the words enforced and coincidental intimacy had caused him to feel a pleasant sensation throughout his entire body.†   (source)
  • What a wonderful coincidence, seeing you here!†   (source)
  • Walking in the woods with my son, who by no coincidence bears my uncle's name, I was fighting back tears.†   (source)
  • There are coincidences, and something people call luck.†   (source)
  • My uncle says they were accidents, that it was a coincidence.†   (source)
  • And the coincidence of it, Paul Berlin learned, was the peculiar fact that Oscar Johnson knew very little about surviving.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I was sleeping lightly, or it may have been just coincidence that I woke up to catch an anguished thought from Rosalind.†   (source)
  • "How convenient," Kessell mused, wondering if the subject of his dream had been a coincidence or a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Probably pure coincidence.†   (source)
  • Way too big a coincidence to have two murders on the same street at the same time by two different sets of killers.†   (source)
  • Coincidence.†   (source)
  • It was a coincidence that each of the first Buckmen was from my home state of Louisiana.†   (source)
  • "Such a coincidence," said Ralph.†   (source)
  • I mean it's so hard to just say it's absolute coincidence and then just let it go at that—that's what's so fascinating to me.†   (source)
  • Curious coincidence.†   (source)
  • It's not a coincidence that horrible diseases follow immoral conduct—it's the consequences that follow when you break God's laws.†   (source)
  • Which was one of those coincidences you run across with a million sick monkeys.†   (source)
  • "Well, what a coincidence, I dreamed about a convertible," Merrick said.†   (source)
  • And did he find the confluence of events—the dead drop and the sudden travel of a trusted lieutenant—a bit too coincidental for comfort?†   (source)
  • At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute.†   (source)
  • "It looks like a coincidence," he said.†   (source)
  • Leamas knew it wasn't coincidence any longer.†   (source)
  • With coincidences blossoming these days wherever she looked, she had nothing but a sound, a word, Trystero.†   (source)
  • I knew this had to be coincidence.†   (source)
  • If it had not been for Cathy's murder, fire and robbery might have been a coincidence.†   (source)
  • Now some say the occurrence of the bird was coincidental with his departure, but in no way connected with it.†   (source)
  • I'm sure I must have told you that, due purely to an alphabetical coincidence (everything is alphabetical in the service), Pete Strohmyer and Chuckle Stutz are my roommates here.†   (source)
  • Then Clumly's office light went off, and the same instant—not by coincidence, Hodge had a feeling—the bearded Freeman appeared beside the Plymouth, opening the door.†   (source)
  • At that very moment-could it have been coincidence?†   (source)
  • CROMWELL No; by an odd coincidence this cup later came into the hands of Master Rich here.†   (source)
  • When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will not scorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincidence, and worthless hull, but he will read them, he will study and love them, letter by letter.†   (source)
  • What an extraordinary coincidence.†   (source)
  • It could be coincidence, but I was not prepared to believe that.†   (source)
  • I cried all night, but Fred said it wasn't a bit of use and to go to sleep, because the whole thing was just a sort of coincidence— you know: can't do nothin' about it.†   (source)
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