All 9 Uses
coincidence
in
True Believer, by Sparks
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- Then again, perhaps her visit here was simply a coincidence.†
Chpt 2 *coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- Come to think of it, a rather attractive coincidence.†
Chpt 2
- It's quite a coincidence, don't you think?†
Chpt 4
- Coincidence?†
Chpt 7
- Fraud, honest mistakes, and coincidence were the most common explanations for events regarded as supernatural, and up to this point, every one of Jeremy's investigations into such events had fallen into one of these three categories.†
Chpt 10
- Coincidence accounted for nearly everything else and was simply a function of mathematical probability.†
Chpt 10
- The lights struck Jeremy as neither fraud nor coincidence, and yet it wasn't an honest mistake, either.†
Chpt 10
- It could have been a coincidence, but he strongly doubted that, which meant they'd most likely spent the night together.†
Chpt 16
- Coincidence?†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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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
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(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