Learner’s Word of the Day =>Coincidence

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=>Coincidence   

 

Function: noun

Plural: coincidences

Meanings:
1 : a situation in which events happen at the same time in a way that is not planned or expected
Examples:
[noncount] <It was mere/pure/sheercoincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago.>
<By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred.>
<Our meeting happened by coincidence.[=by chance]>
[count] <"I'm going to Boston this weekend." "What a coincidence! I am too.">
<It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery.>
<a series of strange coincidences>
<By a fortunate/happy coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time.>

2 [singular]formal : the occurrence of two or more things at the same time
Example:
<Scientists have no explanation for thecoincidence of these phenomena.>

3 [singular]formal : the state of two or more things being the same — often followed by of 
Example:
<There is a coincidence of interests between the companies. [=the companies share the same interests]>