How to Use coincidentally in a Sentence

coincidentally

adverb
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  • The reason the two don't always sync—and sometime coincidentally do—is based on the two different calendars.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Colin episodes in particular have this energy a lot of the time, and are not coincidentally the liveliest episode most weeks.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2021
  • And those were coincidentally the only seasons Miami produced a winning record and qualified for the postseason the past two decades.
    — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 20 May 2021
  • The Cowboys’ final game that season was, coincidentally, at home against Washington.
    — Saad Yousuf, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Once the plane arrived, the boys boarded the commercial flight alongside three government contractors and, coincidentally, this reporter.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 14 May 2021
  • Not coincidentally, the team had the fewest wins (six) in the WNBA.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Not coincidentally, all three have struggled both in the field and at the plate.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • Not coincidentally, the Rams have won four games in a row and clinched a playoff spot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The two even coincidentally wore game day looks with similar, sweet nods to their men out on the field.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Not coincidentally, the U.S. also has one of the highest child-poverty rates in the group.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And not coincidentally, the episode ends with the image of Kendall drowning in a swimming pool.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The storm coincidentally fell on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the rare derecho that spawned a tornado in Rogers Park.
    — Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Cheryl was heading to the seventh floor of the hotel, and, coincidentally, so were Preet and his party.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps not coincidentally, the storms came on the evening of the year’s hottest day, when the mercury in Washington climbed to 97 degrees.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • It’s also the most points the Bengals have allowed since last year’s loss to the Jets, which coincidentally was on Halloween as well.
    — cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Alaska is first mentioned in the 1948 edition of the Green Book, not coincidentally the same year that the Alcan Highway opened to the public.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2022
  • And one night, every woman in the restaurant coincidentally needed a drink at the same time George Clooney pulled up a barstool.
    — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The bond deepened when Alex chose Wake Forest to play his college golf and coincidentally, Annabelle picked the school as well.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
  • Not coincidentally, maybe, these are the two tracks that come off as quasi-funky, even danceable, due to White leaving a lot of room for bass lines around the samples.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The entire ad is about the new angle, i.e., a triangle, which coincidentally is the same shape of a Doritos chip.
    — Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps not coincidentally the art is the same robin’s egg blue as the jeweler’s bags.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The Bucks, coincidentally, will be between home games on April 1 and April 3.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The architect built the home for one of his two daughters, who coincidentally lived right next door.
    — Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 5 July 2021
  • Halloween fell on a Sunday for the first time since 2010 – coincidentally, perhaps, the last time the Packers won the Super Bowl.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Xander Schauffele was the only one to play the North, and perhaps not coincidentally, the only one to break par (68).
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Both of those teams, coincidentally, had similar experiences with the Fall Classic in The Town — agony in the 70s, joy in the 90s.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Two, coincidentally, is also the number of wins that the Utah Jazz have in their last eleven games heading into this month.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The most famous prison island in history might be, coincidentally, one of the largest islands in the world.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Not coincidentally, the Dodgers are 3-3 over those six games.
    — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 4 July 2024
  • That, coincidentally, marked the beginning of the end of Scherzer’s time in D.C.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021

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