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to coincide

to coincide

80 4.4
Happen at the same time as something else or be the same as it
  • verb
  • /koʊɪnˈsaɪd/
translation icon : coincidir
  • The festival will coincide with the national holiday, allowing for more celebrations.
  • coincide exactly
  • coincide necessarily
  • coincide with boundaries

Everything it finds will coincide and not contradict itself.

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Examples

  • I'm going to suggest some and see how well they coincide with your thoughts.

    YaleCourses

  • And that does not coincide with their idea of rehabilitation.

    Ida Red (2021)

  • I guess it's it's going to coincide with Super Tuesday, one of the cases.

  • And he went on to say these differences do not coincide with corresponding differences in climate.

  • They usually coincide with the market.

    Graham Stephan

  • And it actually coincides with what we learned before that.

  • The meal had been prepared to coincide with the return of the absent trio.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • But the aspects that we are looking for community, all right, coincide with communalism.

  • The level of voting support for each of the candidates has closely coincided with their regional background.

    Academic text (1999)

  • In any case, district boundaries do not seem to coincide neatly with tribal divisions.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

to align with
vsto coincide
82 4.4

To agree with and change to match something

also covers simply happening at the same time or being identical in nature
to correspond
vsto coincide
68 3.8

Be similar to something in meaning, amount or place

also indicates things happen at the same time as well as matching
to synchronize
vsto coincide
  • US
49 4.7

To make two or more things happen at the same time

happens without deliberate adjustment, simply sharing time or matching character
to sync
vsto coincide
  • Informal
34 3.9

To make two or more things happen at the same time and match each other

means occurring together naturally or matching without active adjustment
to parallel
vsto coincide
16 4.3

To be very similar to something else

leans toward exact matching or same timing rather than analogy
to concur
vsto coincide
1 6.8

To happen at the same time as another event

also includes matching in position or character, not only timing
to cooccur
vsto coincide
7.2

To happen at the same time as something else

also covers exact matching in character or position, not only chance timing
to co-occur
vsto coincide
6.3

To happen at the same time as something else

also means being identical in nature or position, not only happening together

Antonyms

to disagree
∞ 1.0

Have a different opinion from someone

to differ
152 2.6

To be different from another person or thing in some way

How Simultaneous

to synchronize
  • US
49 4.7
to coincide
80 4.4
to overlap
25 3.5

Surface Forms

coincide infinitive
coincided past
coincided past participle
coinciding present participle
coincides third person singular

Etymology

Coincide comes from Latin parts co- 'together' and incidere 'to fall into', the same root you see in incident ('something that happens'). A helpful image is two things 'falling together'. That's why to coincide is to happen at the same time or to match.