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coincidence

/koh-in-si-duhns/US // koʊˈɪn sɪ dəns //UK // (kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns) //

巧合,偶然性,巧合的是,偶发事件

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance: Our meeting in Venice was pure coincidence.
    • : the condition or fact of coinciding.
    • : an instance of this.

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Examples

  • In other words, it was no coincidence that politics had become self-sustaining, self-dealing, and self-centered.

  • The timing of the trip—which will take him to Italy, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Norway—may not be a coincidence.

  • “It is probably not a coincidence that Gloria released a poll this week showing how much further ahead his pollster has him,” Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts write.

  • It is probably not a coincidence that Gloria released a poll this week showing how much further ahead his pollster has him.

  • The coincidence was strong, and if confirmed, it would let astronomers figure out what causes fast radio bursts.

  • In Colombia, it was perceived more like a coincidence or perhaps even an opportunistic play by the FARC.

  • By a sad coincidence, one of these heroes, John Michael Doar, died that same day from congestive heart failure.

  • In a strange coincidence, the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened the same weekend as Interstellar.

  • Is this just coincidence, or has something changed in the cultural dialogue?

  • His last line was, “Barbara Jean Kralik was not killed by coincidence!”

  • When the ship tossed in an unusually rough crossing he was prepared to admit to himself that it was an uncanny coincidence.

  • But, having summarised them, we also become aware of a very curious coincidence.

  • The door flew open, so that the princess receded, frightened in spite of herself by the odd coincidence.

  • "It is only a chance resemblance, of course—a mere coincidence," she replied, in a tone of uneasiness.

  • Do not wish to suggest anything wrong; but coincidence at least remarkable.