sheer coincidence
Frequency: 7.814.5 per million words
used to strongly emphasize that something is completely a coincidence
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Examples (20)
- 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.