All 4 Uses
coincidence
in
1st to Die, by Patterson
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- But the most chilling coincidence — the one that gave me an eerie feeling — was that he died of leukemia, cousin of the same degenerative disease that was coursing through me.†
p. 119.4 *coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- So this was all some bizarre coincidence, right?†
p. 311.9
- Surely the unfortunate coincidence of my client's taste in champagne doesn't implicate him in this act.†
p. 312.8
- Coincidence?†
p. 362.8
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