Both Uses
coincidence
in
Twelve Angry Men
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- Aren't you asking us to accept a pretty incredible coincidence?†
Act 1coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- It would still be an incredible coincidence for another person to have stabbed the father with the same kind of knife.
Act 1 *coincidence = a situation where two things happened the same by chance even though it was unlikely
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