extraordinary coincidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextraordinaryandcoincidence
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extraordinary
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstrɔː.dɪn.ər.i/us/ɪkˈstrɔːr.dən.er.i/
very unusual, special, unexpected, ...
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coincidence
noun
uk/kəʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/us/koʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/
an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely ...
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(Definition ofextraordinaryandcoincidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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On the contrary, considering the possible permutations of neural connections, we should be amazed if there was any similarity and would put that down to anextraordinarycoincidence.
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There seems even to have been an occasional feminist voice in opera, made feasible by theextraordinarycoincidenceof a female patron and a female composer.
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This seems to me to be a ratherextraordinarycoincidence.
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By anextraordinarycoincidence, the savings from those three fraud programmes add up to exactly £1 billion.
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I ventured to disagree with that, and by someextraordinarycoincidencemy disagreement has proved to be correct.
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It is a story of mostextraordinarycoincidencein this field.
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Is it not anextraordinarycoincidencethat there should be this enormous increase?
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This sordid tale will strike everybody as being anextraordinarycoincidence, to call it nothing more.
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By anextraordinarycoincidence, he said something that was about the same as my answer, though not identical to it.
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I remarked that it was anextraordinarycoincidence.
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By anextraordinarycoincidencein this one case both the manual checks failed.
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But it would be a mostextraordinarycoincidenceif the same set of circumstances arose again.
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Is it not anextraordinarycoincidencethat every news commentator came forward with the figure of 8½p?
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Yet we have thisextraordinarycoincidenceof a record balance of payments surplus.
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Theextraordinarycoincidenceof the election addresses is a matter which will always be very difficult to explain to any reasonable man.
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It is anextraordinarycoincidencethat in the case of both houses the family should come to an end with two bachelor brothers.
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I think that is a ratherextraordinarycoincidence.
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It is anextraordinarycoincidencethat the gap should be growing at exactly the same rate in those counties.
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It was anextraordinarycoincidence, was it not?
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If one comes to think of it, it would be anextraordinarycoincidenceif the numbers of the various groups should coincide exactly.
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