How to Use coincident in a Sentence

coincident

adjective
  • Later in the day, the nation's leading and coincident indexes for July are also slated to be released.
    — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Will start doing upgrades in volume in a few months, coincident with more FSD features being released.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Her humor is coincident with a total seriousness.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • But the coincident publication of these two papers, each plausible in itself, is a useful reminder of the requirement, in science, to check the work.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The arrival of the pandemic was also coincident with flu season and the onset of seasonal allergies, which can produce an overlapping set of symptoms.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Different things happen to different people, but aging is coincident with disability.
    — Rachel Withers, Vox, 2 Dec. 2018
  • In a separate announcement, but with coincident timing, WestJet also announced a stopover plan in Calgary.
    — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • There is, perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Cooke initially told the public and its regulators the incident was just a small release of fish, and primarily a business loss for the company, caused by unusually high tides coincident with the solar eclipse the same week.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The threat level has again risen, precisely coincident with A&E’s promotion and airing of the second season of this show, now spawning even more threats—bombings, murder and acts of physical violence.
    — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • In all likelihood, these events were merely a coincident — that is, there is no evidence that Tongariro and Ruapehu are directly connected at shallow levels under the volcanoes.
    — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2012
  • The coincident new Moon contributes no light pollution, making 2025 ideal for Orionid viewing.
    — Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Approximately coincident with this article’s publication, Amazon blocked sales of the Flipper Zero and Brazil banned all imports of the device.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Coincident with the period of physical examination, the system of voluntary induction was inaugurated.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Regional banks bounced a bit, still down a couple percent on the week, as Thursday’s flush lower amid a few separate but coincident credit hiccups exacerbated underlying unease with the opaque and possibly lax lending across private credit and among smaller commercial banks.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Accelerating human evolution coincident with the development of agriculture increased redheadedness and decreased male-pattern baldness.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

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