Definition of "coincidences" [coincidences]

• Plural form of coincidence. (noun)

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• "The usual number of those curious accidents which we call coincidences have fallen to my share in this life, but for picturesqueness this one puts all the others in the shade: that a crowned head and a _portier_, the very top of an empire and the very bottom of it, should pass the very same criticism and deliver the very same verdict upon a book of mine -- and almost in the same hour and the same breath -- is a coincidence which out-coincidences any coincidence which I could have imagined with such powers of imagination as I have been favored with; and I have not been accustomed to regard them as being small or of an inferior quality."
• "ElBruce: “The thing about finding after-the-fact coincidences is that there are nigh infinite possibilities from which you can draw dots to connect.”"
• "The thing about finding after-the-fact coincidences is that there are nigh infinite possibilities from which you can draw dots to connect."