completely coincidental

Frequency: 7.09.8 per million words

To strongly emphasize that something happened purely by chance.

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Examples (10)

  • Our meeting at the airport was completely coincidental; I had no idea you were flying today.
  • The police confirmed that the timing of the two power outages was completely coincidental.
  • It seems more than just happenstance; do you really believe this is completely coincidental?
  • While the plot of my novel is similar to his, I assure you the resemblance is completely coincidental.
  • The fact that they both chose the same obscure password was proven to be completely coincidental.
  • He claimed his presence at the scene of the crime was completely coincidental.
  • It would be an amazing discovery if these two ancient artifacts, found continents apart, were not completely coincidental in design.
  • She won the lottery with numbers she saw in a dream, a success she attributes to a completely coincidental event.
  • Any resemblance in this film to actual persons, living or dead, is completely coincidental.
  • We later found out that our parents knew each other, so our friendship wasn't as completely coincidental as we first thought.