sheer coincidence

Frequency: 7.814.5 per million words

used to strongly emphasize that something is completely a coincidence

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  • It was sheer coincidence that we both wore the same dress to the party.
  • It was a sheer coincidence that we were both in Paris at the same time.
  • By sheer coincidence, I bumped into my old professor on a flight to Berlin.
  • They met at the airport by sheer coincidence after not seeing each other for years.
  • The detective concluded that the two events happening on the same night was sheer coincidence.
  • Finding the exact same rare book in a small, unknown shop felt like sheer coincidence.
  • Our meeting wasn't planned; it was simply sheer coincidence.
  • The fact that their birthdays fall on the same day is a sheer coincidence.
  • He insisted that any resemblance to his former boss in the novel was sheer coincidence.
  • I bumped into my old teacher in a foreign country; it was a moment of sheer coincidence.
  • Discovering that our grandfathers served in the same army unit was a moment of sheer coincidence.
  • The timing of their arrival was a sheer coincidence, as neither had planned it.
  • The fact that both winning lottery tickets were sold at the same store was dismissed as sheer coincidence.
  • We discovered we were related through a sheer coincidence while researching family trees.
  • Do you really expect me to believe that their simultaneous resignations were just sheer coincidence?
  • It's not destiny, just a sheer coincidence that we ended up in the same small town.
  • It would be a sheer coincidence if our paths ever crossed again in such a big city.
  • The two companies merged because of a sheer coincidence in their business strategies.
  • Finding my lost wallet in a taxi I happened to take a week later was nothing short of sheer coincidence.
  • That we both chose the same obscure movie to watch on the same night was a sheer coincidence.