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as in coincident
existing or occurring at the same period of time
the nearly coincidental deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa
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as in attending
present at the same time and place
claims a connection between the proliferation of fast-food restaurants and the coincidental surge in the rate of obesity
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Recent Examples of coincidental
However, these patterns are often purely coincidental and lack any deeper inherent meaning.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Musk showing up in Butler, Pennsylvania wasn't coincidental.
—Leah Feiger, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
Layman’s terms translation: the songs share coincidental similarities.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 14 Aug. 2024
But their owners, and the leader of the Bluebird District — a nine-block stretch of properties along Colfax between St. Paul Street and Colorado Boulevard — say the timing is coincidental ahead of a major construction project on East Colfax expected to start this month.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2024
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Musk showing up in Butler, Pennsylvania wasn't coincidental.
—Leah Feiger, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
Layman’s terms translation: the songs share coincidental similarities.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 14 Aug. 2024
But their owners, and the leader of the Bluebird District — a nine-block stretch of properties along Colfax between St. Paul Street and Colorado Boulevard — say the timing is coincidental ahead of a major construction project on East Colfax expected to start this month.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coincidental
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.Seth Joseph, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Another suggestion is that there were two more or less coincident eruptions, one each in northern and southern hemispheres.Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2011
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What? Turns out Paris’s and Ellie’s timelines are actually not concurrent.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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At the top of that list would have been Edmund Wilson, whose reviews ran concurrent with hers in The New Republic.Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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In an accompanying statement also released Thursday, the firm outlined a list of new rules geared at ensuring similar problems don’t happen again.Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2024
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Other highlights include a living room hosting French doors spilling out to a Juliette balcony and an adjacent kitchen outfitted with Carrara marble countertops, custom glass-front cabinetry, high-end appliances, and an accompanying breakfast bar.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
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The difference between synchronous between asynchronous learning A synchronous learning day means that the virtual learning still has a live element to it.Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2024
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Online students can take advantage of synchronous opportunities to build community with their instructors and peers.Doug Wintemute, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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By contrast, sorrow, mourning, and darkness are the attendant scores of the modern ghost story.Tithi Bhattacharya / Made by History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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While Arizona had seen people moving in from other states and the attendant home price increases even before 2020, the pandemic accelerated and expanded that trend to other Sun Belt and more affordable states.Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
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With a lockable synchronic-tilt mechanism and special Z-Shape design, the Kaiser 2 can accommodate a weight up to 180kg, quite a bit more than normal mechanisms on office chairs and the back can be reclined to an angle of 160 degrees which can be locked when not in rocking mode.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
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For his last runway collection, unveiled in September, Michele constructed a parallel universe of side-by-side shows separated by a wall that when lifted revealed twins in identical looks in synchronic stride.Colleen Barry, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
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Researchers found that during such an experience, some of these LAAs were activated; re-activating the LAAs in a different environment appeared to stimulate recall of the memory and associated learning.Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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By altering the benchmarks reflective of the new expectation that agents will handle multiple chats concurrently, Autodesk has transformed both the goals and the associated behaviors, setting a new baseline for productivity.Peter High, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Coincidental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coincidental. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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