All 14 Uses of

coincidence
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce

Now that's a coincidence.†
Chpt 8 *

coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely

Yet still though his eyes were thick with sleep and sea air life was full of a host of things and coincidences of a terrible nature and it was quite within the bounds of possibility that it was not an entire fabrication though at first blush there was not much inherent probability in all the spoof he got off his chest being strictly accurate gospel.†
Chpt 16

coincidences = situations where things happened at the same time by chance even though they were unlikely

Coincidence I just happened to be in the Kildare street museum 890 today, shortly prior to our meeting if I can so call it, and I was just looking at those antique statues there.†
Chpt 16

coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely

Added to which was the coincidence of meeting, discussion, dance, row, old salt of the here today and gone tomorrow type, night loafers, the whole galaxy of events, all went to make up a miniature cameo of the world we live in especially as the lives of the submerged tenth, viz.†
Chpt 16

He inquired if it was John Bull the political celebrity of that ilk, as it struck him, the two identical names, as a striking coincidence.†
Chpt 16

Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative of the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive result of which he had read in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, in the cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge.†
Chpt 17

coincidences = situations where things happened at the same time by chance even though they were unlikely

Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition?†
Chpt 17

coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely

Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums?†
Chpt 17

Definitions:

(1) (coincidence)
a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely

(for example, if two students in the same class met by accident while visiting another country)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much more rarely coincidence can refer to things coinciding (occurring or operating at the same place or time). For example:
- the coincidence of a target and cross hairs
- the coincidence of entangled particles in quantum physics