coincidentally
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4.9
- adverb
- /ˌkoʊɪnˈsɪdntəli/
- I ran into an old friend at the store, and coincidentally, we both had the same shopping list.
- Perhaps coincidentally
- coincidentally happened
- coincidentally the same day
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Watch on YouTubeI was coincidentally out that day.
- I was coincidentally out that day.
- The last time was coincidentally the very last night we spent in that house.
- Charlie Kamata, who's from Queens, NY, also coincidentally raised his hand.
- And so coincidentally, my very first job ever was with that company.
- That's a movement that's going on at the same time coincidentally.
- Yeah, last year, which was also two years off my life that weekend, coincidentally the the the last time that I drank in the UK.
- Then an Angel in a white truck came by, Turned out to be an old friend, you know, just coincidentally.
- Last year I coincidentally noticed that if you ask Google for my cellphone number, it gave you an answer.
- And I just found, I just recently found out, coincidentally, I was speaking to one of the experts that they had engaged on the case.
- Maybe a speeding ticket, you know, But the sheriff, who coincidentally had just been sworn in one week to the day before this, went down.
- Also, coincidentally, I, I, I called NASCAR back because I was supposed to have my last day there.
- That guy just said coincidentally twice in that paragraph hack, you know what I mean?
Examples
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Senator Rubio, coincidentally, is from Bakersfield.
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Perhaps not coincidentally, around that time Canada entered into the business of offering incentives for R&D.
Academic text (1999) -
I was coincidentally out that day.
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The last time was coincidentally the very last night we spent in that house.
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And so coincidentally, my very first job ever was with that company.
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Perhaps even he thinks we're only coincidentally riding the same train line.
Fiction book (1997) -
And I just found, I just recently found out, coincidentally, I was speaking to one of the experts that they had engaged on the case.
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Well, coincidentally, I have a dope artist coming through tonight.
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Last year I coincidentally noticed that if you ask Google for my cellphone number, it gave you an answer.
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Coincidentally, his place is cleaned out, leaving no clues to what he's working on.
Synonyms
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2.3
Happening without planning or intending
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2.4
In a way that has no clear plan or order
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5.1
Happening only by chance and not planned
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7.5
By lucky chance when something happens unexpectedly
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7.7
In a way that happens by chance and brings a good result
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4.3
Happening at the same time as something else
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Morphology
coincidentally = coincidental (semi-transparent) = co + incident + dent + ally
The word 'coincidental' is derived from 'co-' and 'incident', but the adverbial form 'coincidentally' may not be immediately clear to learners.
Etymology
Coincidentally comes from the parts co- meaning 'together' and incident meaning an 'event' or 'happening'. So, when something happens coincidentally, it is an event that happens 'together' with another by chance or in an unexpected way.