coincidence
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This proposed mechanism may also help explain an intriguing coincidence in Earth's geological past.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
She later posted a photograph with her doppelganger, joking that the resemblance was "pure coincidence, not strategy".
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
It can't be a coincidence that a song she wrote after signing her divorce papers became her breakthrough hit.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
It’s no coincidence that the Chiefs, whose 10-year playoff streak ended last season, are off to a 3-0 start and looking like contenders to win the fourth Super Bowl of the Patrick Mahomes era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
This coincidence makes 1543 a convenient marker for the start of the scientific revolution that would transform first Europe and then the world.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
No exotic assumptions or rare coincidences were necessary.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Uncanny coincidences regularly occur; maybe too regularly, since repetition makes the uncanny seem, well, cannily arranged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Wright gave evidence, arguing many of the prosecution's arguments were coincidences.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
That enigmatic response got the team at the brokerage Baird to look for coincidences between Dorsey and Satoshi.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
Whether we call them coincidences, synchronicities, or ironies, however, these occurrences are much more common than most people realize.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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