All 15 Uses
coincidence
in
Asylum, by Madeleine Roux
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- Jung had this way of talking about coincidences, one that Dan had always liked.†
p. 116.3coincidences = situations where things happened at the same time by chance even though they were unlikely
- Basically, he said that when people saw a meaningful connection between two moments—a coincidence—the connection wasn't because one moment led to the other, it was because people's brains were always making connections.†
p. 116.4coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- His discovery couldn't be a coincidence.†
p. 116.5
- "Maybe it's just a coincidence, the name," he said, not really believing that himself.†
p. 143.2
- "A coincidence is you and me both picking pie for dessert," Jordan said.†
p. 143.3
- Jordan had a point about how impossible the coincidence was, but Abby wasn't the sort to mess with them for kicks.†
p. 143.8 *
- Was it yet another not-quite coincidence?†
p. 157.6
- Careful now ..."I thought that was an, uh, interesting coincidence.†
p. 207.9
- They were way beyond coincidences.†
p. 231.7coincidences = situations where things happened at the same time by chance even though they were unlikely
- You don't think it's a rather alarming coincidence?†
p. 255.4coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- "I think a coincidence is exactly what it is, and that's my whole point," his mother said testily.†
p. 255.4
- Dan ending up at Brookline this summer wasn't a coincidence, it was a connection.†
p. 256.8
- Dan had let his mother cast it off as a coincidence, but he knew that nothing about this summer had been coincidental.†
p. 263.2
- Dan had let his mother cast it off as a coincidence, but he knew that nothing about this summer had been coincidental.†
p. 263.3coincidental = a situation where unlikely things happened by chance rather than being related or arranged
- And wouldn't Officer Teague find it more than coincidental that once again Dan was the first at the scene of a crime?†
p. 275.5
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