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"coincidence" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English
You can use the word to describe a chance occurrence that seems to have been planned or arranged. For example: "It was a remarkable coincidence that our paths crossed just as I was thinking about her."
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Coincidence
noun
Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
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This is no coincidence.
By worrying coincidence, the day that we've arrived in Grenada is officially the start of the hurricane season, which runs from June to November.
He told me that he didn't hate me because of rape jokes – the timing was just a coincidence – he hated me because, to put it simply, I don't hate myself.
All of which makes you wonder if it's mere coincidence that he's chosen to give his first interview in the week that the job of next director-general was advertised, or that the chosen venue is the so-called "Tsar's Bar" in a hotel opposite Broadcasting House (where the DG and BBC Broadcast are both based) rather than the Production tsar's own HQ in White City.
And it is no coincidence that we have a new generation of inspirational African leaders in place, making what President Obama has called "the tough choices that will unleash the dynamism of [their] countries".
The odds on such a coincidence occurring must be staggeringly high.
By a cruel coincidence the Dail resumed business just 24 hours after the so-called "troika" from the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund rode into town.
By coincidence, yesterday I popped into a Politeia thinktank session to listen to a very different kind of self-appointed visionary.
News that Jonathan Nott - who has transformed the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in the 15 years he's been its principal conductor - is to start a new job with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva in 2017 (his contract ends in Bamberg next year), brings with it the coincidence of a planned new hall for the Swiss orchestra, replacing the Suisse Romande's current home, the Victoria Hall.
It is no coincidence, says Alawi, that the columns in the firing sights were inscribed with calligraphic poetry recounting Muhammad's journeys and associated sites of pilgrimage.
At Spotify's press event this week, Ek made a point of praising some of his company's hires from the world of radio, too, which was no coincidence.
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