The word "coincided" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when two events occur or exist at the same time. For example, "Their vacation dates conveniently coincided with their parents' anniversary."
But it must also be said that his tenure also coincided with Rangers' worst-ever run of competitive results and a record string of Old Firm defeats.
Her popularity coincided with abuse by the studios, including the use of diet pills that led to addiction.
One recent study revealed that cutting numbers of jailed juvenile offenders by two-thirds had coincided with a cut in youth crime rates of one-third – dramatic figures, especially when combined with less recidivism and lower spending since rehabilitation costs much less than locking people up.
The frame coincided with the end of half-term, fuelling strong results for family fare Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (returning to the top spot thanks to a modest 26% drop), The Book of Life (up 8%) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (down 9%), although the latter title is not one of the six £1m weekend movies.
Serendipitous, though, for it coincided with the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Father Ted, and seems to act as poignant if inadvertent tribute.
In 1994 it not only coincided with the 25th anniversary of Woodstock, it also featured acts from the original lineup, such as Jethro Tull, The Byrds and Jefferson Starship.
The advent of £9,000 undergraduate tuition fees has coincided with British universities raising more money than ever before from former students, charities and other supporters, an annual review of university fundraising has revealed.
South Africa was found to the most active on Twitter, although the fact that the time period being analysed coincided with the death of Nelson Mandela is likely to have skewed the figures.
Their promising development has coincided with a notable turnaround for Pressley, the manager with whom the Falkirk board admirably kept faith despite a failure to earn promotion back to the top flight in May.
Who knows by what cosmic twist of fate the long-scheduled US release of his movie coincided with the week – the very week!
Friday's rally coincided with the signature of a landmark agreement that saw Armenia joining a Russian-led economic bloc - the Eurasian Economic Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan - and turning its back on closer ties with the European Union.
