The Only Use of "coincidence" in "The Importance of Being Earnest"

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The Only Use

coincidence
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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I need hardly tell you that in families of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur.†
Act 3

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

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(1) (coincidence)
a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely
(2) (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