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coincidence
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In the Unlikely Event
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- My uncle says they were accidents, that it was a coincidence.†
p. 216.6 *coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- They said it was a coincidence but it could never happen again.†
p. 328.3
- Coincidence?†
p. 328.5
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