coincidental

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The timing is both coincidental and unfortunate but he is due back after the international break.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Owens is maximalist in her approach, tossing out anything that to her seems funky or confusing or too coincidental, even when they lead to theories that contradict one another.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

That synchronicity was too frequent to be coincidental.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

But it doesn’t seem coincidental that gold’s reversal of fortune in this century has followed global central banks’ preference for the metal over U.S.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan