coincidence

noun/koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/

Frequency rank: #4,417 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a remarkable occurrence of events happening at the same time by chance.

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Example sentence

It was a strange coincidence that we both arrived at the airport at the same time.

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