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coincidental

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


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The average S&P 500 return on a new chair’s first day is negative 0.29%, though the two worst performances in the modern era were largely coincidental.

From Barron's • May 22, 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

I don’t think the timing and virality of these moments, in this season, is coincidental.

From Slate • May 20, 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

Even though it seemed awfully coincidental, I didn’t want to push my luck by asking too many questions about who this someone was.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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