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coincidence
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Hush, Hush
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- I didn't outright suspect Patch of spying on me, but I couldn't ignore the coincidence that I was almost positive I'd seen someone looking in my window just hours after I'd met him.†
p. 33.2coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- I think it's a coincidence.†
p. 47.4 *
- I apologize for the unfortunate coincidence.†
p. 76.1
- I told myself it was a coincidence he was here, but my instincts disagreed.†
p. 99.1
- Maybe it was a disturbing coincidence that Vee had been attacked minutes after I'd watched the girl follow after her, but my instincts disagreed.†
p. 142.2
- Maybe it wasn't a coincidence.†
p. 163.8
- You don't find it a little too coincidental that her apartment showed evidence of a break-in when they discovered the suicide note?†
p. 198.9coincidental = a situation where unlikely things happened by chance rather than being related or arranged
- Was it a coincidence that the last normal day in my life had been right before that fateful day?†
p. 216.2coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- Maybe it was a coincidence that on the same night I complained to Patch about Marcie, she took a beating.†
p. 227.2
- I told myself there was a good chance it was merely a very creepy coincidence that the paintings on the Archangel depicted Patch's scars perfectly.†
p. 249.2
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