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coincidental

[koh-in-si-den-tl] / koʊˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tl /


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"That would suggest to me that it's been a very deliberate act by a typical actor rather than a load of coincidental, malicious calls."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

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

Whether the departure was an explicit condition of a potential swap or a signal of strategic alignment, the sequence wasn’t coincidental.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Skeptics argue coincidental alignment and the conventional Hubble-Humason interpretation of the red shift.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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