coincidental

Example Sentences

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The timing of Apple’s price hikes may have been coincidental, but they illustrate the new world order in technology right now.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

“It is not coincidental that Poland, which shares a border with Russia and attaches high value to its membership in NATO, has been one of the largest gold buyers,” Eichengreen says.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

There’s nothing coincidental in the fact that military schools also rose up around then, and that they kept multiplying past the first world war and up to the second one.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Patel, an avid hockey fan, has defended the trip, arguing that the timing was coincidental with meetings he had been planning to attend with the FBI’s European counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

It isn’t merely coincidental or surprising, as when the newscaster thoughtlessly reports, “Ironically, the jewelry store was burglarized on the same date last year.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner