How to Use coincidence in a Sentence

coincidence

noun

• It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery.
• By a fortunate coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time.
• By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred.
• It was mere coincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago.
• Scientists have no explanation for the coincidence of these phenomena.
• The color, to be honest with you, that was a coincidence.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 5 Oct. 2024
• Those changes are now bigger and bolder—and the timing isn’t a coincidence.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• Bayley Nia Jax wore Bloodline red for her latest title defense, which may or may not be a coincidence.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
• No coincidence that her whistleblower sherpa was the same as Zatko’s, John Tye.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• The height of Reynolds’s jewelry era tracks closely with his three-year engagement to Morissette, and that’s (probably) not a coincidence.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
• This is the period that includes all of recorded history, a coincidence that, presumably, is no coincidence.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• The fact that Buterin has a book titled Proof of Stake coming out in September is probably a coincidence.
  — WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
• Dennis Goins jokes his initial connection to Brevard was more of a coincidence than divine intervention.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022
• And the date of the wedding, 11/11, was a lucky coincidence.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• As the adage goes, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• The timing of the fire turned out to be no coincidence.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Phil, the quieter of the pair, chalks it up to pure coincidence.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Of course a lot of that could be chalked up to just coincidence.
  — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
• The hues of said knit—red, blue, and white—was no coincidence.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
• See, the fact that the moon is the perfect size to cover up the face of the sun in the sky is a total coincidence.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• The man who filed the suit believes the timing isn't a coincidence.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• If two is a coincidence, and three’s a pattern, then four is a cry for help.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• So how much of this is coincidence and how much of it is inspired by Swift?
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Hays didn’t feel like the buck’s daylight trek was a coincidence.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• By coincidence, their 1981 concert was at the same venue (then known as the San Diego Sports Arena).
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
• That transition is tricky, and the fact that the language metaphor breaks down there is not a coincidence.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
• One time is nothing, twice is a coincidence, but three times is a trend.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• Is all this mere coincidence, as Dr. Semperweiss, a psychoanalyst who works at the main sanatorium, suggests?
  — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
• Steve McQueen enjoyed the unusual coincidence of celebrating both the world premiere of his latest film and his birthday on Wednesday night.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024