Meaning & use
coincidentally
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By chance, at the same time, or in a way that happens without being planned.
See it in a sentence
Coincidentally, both of them had chosen the same book for their vacation reading.
We ran into each other coincidentally at the airport.
A note on using this word
Often used to open a sentence and signal that what follows is an unplanned or surprising overlap of events.
Words with a similar meaning
by chancefortuitously
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Words with an opposite meaning
deliberatelyintentionally
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