coincidence noun

/kəʊˈɪnt .sɪ.dənt s/

/koʊ-/ n

Definition

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[C] an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely and surprising

You chose exactly the same wallpaper as us - what a coincidence!

Is it just a coincidence that the wife of the man who ran the competition won first prize?

a series of strange/amazing coincidences

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[U] chance or luck

Just by coincidence, I met my old school-mate again fifty years later.

[+ that ] It was pure/sheer coincidence that I remembered his phone number.

By some strange coincidence, he was passing the house just when it happened.

(Definition of coincidence noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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