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  • Coincidence is something I used to regard as an unnatural phenomenon.

    Blog De Ganz | Archive | January 2005

  • The word Coincidence is vulgarly used only for the inexplicable concurrence of _interesting_ events -- "quite a coincidence!"

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • I made an album called Coincidence and Likely Stories, which is a pretty hard-hitting album-I love it-with my co-producer Chris Birkett.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • I made an album called Coincidence and Likely Stories, which is a pretty hard-hitting album-I love it-with my co-producer Chris Birkett.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • "Coincidence," said one of the board members, a contributor to Plainfield political campaign committees.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Dan 2007

  • "Coincidence," said one of the board members, a contributor to Plainfield political campaign committees.

    Morris County Tax Board: Bipartisan Dimwits? Dan 2007

  • "Coincidence," the paper's Money & Investing editor told me.

    When Harry Met Sallie Mae 2008

  • "Coincidence," Harris said when he mentioned it at supper.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • "Coincidence," said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice.

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

  • Had they arrived earlier, had they come in the shape of something less easily negotiable than Bearer Bonds, had they been representing more or less than precisely the very sum which Berry had named in his appeal, we might have labelled the matter "Coincidence," and thought no more of it.

    Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

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