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coincidental

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


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This strategy of testing the law and institutions, then losing, and then revising and trying again until the barrier is broken or sufficiently bent to exploit, is not coincidental.

From Salon Jul. 9, 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

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

They’ll think it’s a little too coincidental that this would be a naturally occurring phenomenon, even though it was my own family legends that brought me to this work.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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