MEANING
1. To occur at the same time or occupy the same position.
2. To be the same, similar, or in agreement in a relevant respect.
Use it for
describing simultaneous changes without asserting a cause; comparing the timing of two events; identifying shared position or overlapSeparates occurrence together from agreement and prevents temporal coincidence from being treated as causal proof. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships, Comparison / Contrast, Inference.
Words that belong together
- coincide with a change
- events that coincide
- boundaries that coincide
On the page
The fall in employment coincided with the policy change, but the timing alone does not identify its cause.
The two boundaries coincide only in the northern part of the region.
The authors’ conclusions coincide on the immediate outcome but differ on its explanation.
Institutional interests can coincide temporarily without becoming identical.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- coincide
- Past tense
- coincided
- Past participle
- coincided
- Present participle
- coinciding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- coincide
- Present continuous
- am/is/are coinciding
- Present perfect
- have/has coincided
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been coinciding
- Past
- coincided
- Past continuous
- was/were coinciding
- Past perfect
- had coincided
- Past perfect continuous
- had been coinciding
- Future
- will coincide
- Future continuous
- will be coinciding
- Future perfect
- will have coincided
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been coinciding
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Intransitive. Coincide with + event, position or view. Third-person coincides; past/participle coincided; present participle coinciding. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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