by coincidence
Example Sentences
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Whether by coincidence or not, after we first reported her story, she removed her AI-generated content from Instagram and TikTok.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Not by coincidence, Evy discovers that she is herself pregnant, though she hasn’t told her boyfriend, with whom she was living before moving into her mother’s house for the latter’s final days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
And then, by coincidence, all these references to Hawaii were popping up in my comedy unintentionally as I was preparing for the special.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Days before I sat down for my conversation with John Lithgow, and purely by coincidence, I watched “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” for the first time in decades.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2024
But, as the following derivation shows, such experiences are more rationally accounted for by coincidence.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
