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How to use coincide in a sentence

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Coincide means to occupy exactly the same space. Example: “The two squares coincide nicely.”

Examples of coincide by meaning

verbTo occupy exactly the same space.

  • The two squares coincide nicely.

verbTo occur at the same time.

  • The conference will coincide with his vacation.
  • The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 835

verbTo correspond, concur, or agree.

  • Our ideas coincide, except in certain areas.

More sentences with coincide

  • The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.From the entry time
  • The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.From the entry attack
  • The time of Henry VII nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history.From the entry commencement
  • A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.From the entry knot
  • Without a tariff, the competitive equilibrium outcome coincides with the first best allocation.2025 May, Iván Werning, Guido Lorenzoni, Veronica Guerrieri, “Tariffs as Cost-Push Shocks: Implications for Optimal Monetary Policy”, in…. From the entry first best
  • The rise of micro-cores coincides with the rise of hyper-specific internet aesthetics.2022 July 27, Sarah Spellings, “Core Is the New Chic”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry core
  • His (Lee Kuan Yew) first visit to Sri Lanka coincided with the victory of Bandaranaike’s (S.W.R.D.2022 April 22, Hasala Perera, “Sri Lanka in Lee Kuan Yew’s words”, in The Island (Sri Lanka). From the entry pukka sahib
  • Go ahead, read on to humankind’s honest truth, the coinciding dominion where mansplaining reality confronts feminazi theory.2017, Nathaniel Schmeling, Timing the Infinite, →ISBN. From the entry covfefe
  • However, the intraperoxisomal localization of this enzyme does not coincide with such a function.2015 October 21, “Peroxisomal Import Reduces the Proapoptotic Activity of Deubiquitinating Enzyme USP2”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry intraperoxisomal
  • Marginal cost and marginal vendibility thus coincide; and when they coincide, there is equilibrium.2013, Frank W. Taussig, Principles of Economics, volume I. From the entry vendibility
  • The assumption is that for a substantial part of the vocabulary, Anglo-American and Indian English coincide exactly.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 306. From the entry Anglo-American
  • Just how begrudged this munificent sum was became clear the year Roger's visit coincided with Sam's birthday.2010, Lucy Mangan, The Reluctant Bride. From the entry begrudged
  • Paul's arrival in Hollywood coincided with an increase in public awareness that all wasn't perfect in screenland.2009, E. J. Fleming, Paul Bern, page 53. From the entry screenland
  • A Bermudan callable has several call dates, usually coinciding with coupon dates.2006, Business Knowledge for IT in Investment Banking: A complete handbook for IT Professionals (UK Edition), Essvale Corporation Limited…. From the entry Bermudan
  • Errors frequently occur when a coordinate does not coincide with a scale marking or grid line.2003, Sandra Amos, Richard Boohan, Aspects of Teaching Secondary Science: Perspectives on Practice. From the entry graphwork
  • In the former case it coincides with the anthropology, sociology, economics, and politology of culture.1999, Mario Bunge, Social Science Under Debate: A Philosophical Perspective, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry culturology
  • Her bouts of Rollerblading seem to coincide with fights with Eye Guy.1997, Maggie Estep, Diary of an Emotional Idiot: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry upper
  • But the midcircle, regardless of the extent of its expansion, will never coincide with the outer circle.1993, Philosophical Inquiry, volumes 15-16, page 52. From the entry midcircle
  • Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest.Coleman v. Commissioner, 791 F.2d 68, 69 (7th Cir. 1986). From the entry tax protester
  • Turtle and log explode in a gigantic, echoing splash that coincides with the BLAOW! of the gun.1981, Katie Letcher Lyle, Dark But Full of Diamonds, page 34. From the entry blaow
  • One, the northeast part of the city, roughly coincides with the old Tai-tao-chen area.1964, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Settlement and Transportation”, in Taiwan-ilha formosa; a geography in perspective, Butterworths, →LCCN, page 235. From the entry Wanhua
  • The document said the civil strife would coincide with the with­drawal of Soviet troops from north Korea.1948 July 1, “Police Uncover Red Korea Plot”, in East Liverpool Review, volume 69, number 214, East Liverpool, Ohio, sourced from…. From the entry people's army
  • The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21. From the entry pecuniary
  • It coincides with the political and cultural axis of medieval (13-16th centuries) Ukraina.1931, D[mitry] S[vyatopolk-]Mirsky, “The Two West Russian Nations”, in Russia: A Social History, London: The Cresset Press, published 1942…. From the entry Ukraina
  • The list of misdeeds was released by the operator on March 3 to coincide with Employee Appreciation Day.2023 March 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 979, page 71. From the entry misdeed
  • The phenomenon coincides with the ascendance of Sinn Féin.2022 October 21, Rory Carroll, “Ireland grapples with singing of pro-IRA chant”, in The Guardian. From the entry ascendance
  • This formation represents the Zanclean flood that coincided with the end of the MSC event in the Cyrenaica Basin.2021, Osama Rahil Shaltami, Fares F. Fares, Hwedi Errishi, Farag M. EL Oshebi, Isotope Geochronology of the Exposed Rocks in the Cyrenaica…. From the entry Zanclean flood
  • Tonight it is being called a potential ‘twindemic’, the flu season and COVID coinciding this fall with deadly results.2020 August 21, “CDC urges all Americans to get flu shots amid fears of ‘twindemic’”, in NBC. From the entry twindemic
  • It also requires frame-perfect precision in execution, with particular inputs having to coincide with in-game timers and triggers.2019, James Newman, “Wrong Warping, Sequence Breaking, and Running through Code Systemic Contiguity and Narrative Architecture in The…. From the entry frame-perfect
  • Ostensibly a ten-year-anniversary event, the rerelease also happened to coincide with Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and the impending U.S. election.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 39. From the entry rerelease
  • If inflation lasted much longer than the minimum number of required efolds, our bound relaxes to coincide with the usual bound.2015, Dustin Lorshbough, “An upper bound on the reheat temperature for short duration inflation”, in arXiv. From the entry efolds
  • Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to.2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian. From the entry slapdash
  • Other notions of pseudocodeword-like structures such as stopping sets are also known to coincide with these polytope vertices.2008, Ming-Yang Kao, Encyclopedia of Algorithms, page 481. From the entry pseudocodeword
  • Traditionally, this coincides with the visit of the Magi.2008, Susan Wiggs, “Epiphany”, in Snowfall at Willow Lake (The Lakeshore Chronicles; 4), Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, →ISBN. From the entry Twelfth Day
  • Awareness of the ecocidal propensities of the rural population coincided with the first reckless surge of modern industry.2007, Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, Picador, published 2008, page 273. From the entry ecocidal
  • One (1) patient demonstrated recovery, remission, and subsequent rerecovery, which coincided with the commencement, cessation, and retreatment with propranolol.2006 May, Andrew Tatham, Adrian Macfarlane, “The use of propranolol to treat central serous chorioretinopathy: an evaluation by serial…. From the entry rerecovery

Meaning of coincide

  1. verb To occupy exactly the same space.
  2. verb To occur at the same time.
  3. verb To correspond, concur, or agree.

Full definition of coincide

Questions about coincide in a sentence

How do you use coincide in a sentence?
Coincide is used as a verb. For example: “The two squares coincide nicely.”
What is a short sentence with coincide?
“The two squares coincide nicely.”
What does coincide mean?
Coincide means to occupy exactly the same space.

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