The view that the correspondence referred to was a mere coincidence, purely accidental in origin, is perhaps that most commonly taken.
Now this correspondence might be accounted for in three different ways: (1) It might be said that it was a mere coincidence, no relation of cause and effect existing between the two phenomena.
Surely, if this correspondence between the increase of the foreign element and the relative decline of the native element is a mere coincidence, it is one of the most astonishing in human history.
The connection is too clear for us to doubt the reality of it or to think that it is mere coincidence.
It is easy to see now after the event that, if it had been fulfilled, it would have been, in spite of its startlingness, a mere coincidence.
It was so detailed and those details were known to so many authorities in science, that it would have carried great weight and it would have been extremely difficult to have people accept it as a mere coincidence.
This fact was interpreted as implying something more than a mere coincidence.
It would be hard to find anything more than a mere coincidence here; but it seems curious enough to be worth telling.
The telephone message which had summoned Dunbar away had been too opportune to be regarded as a mere coincidence.
But the liver is found affected so frequently in dysentery as to constitute more than a mere coincidence.
Eichhorst calls attention to the well-known fact that abscess of the liver is especially a disease of the tropics independently of dysentery, and the frequency of its occurrence here may be a mere coincidence.
That it is not a mere coincidence is evidenced by the fact that it is present in a large number of cases in certain epidemics, while it is not present independently of dysentery.
But doubtless some such cases have been examples of mere coincidence.
Call it telepathy, or whatever you please, it cannot be a mere coincidence.
Besides, it might all have been only his imagination; in part it could have been nothing else, and the rest was a mere coincidence.
Any single contrast of this kind might be supposed a mere coincidence, but there are two others drawn between the swarthy maiden and the monarch.
The other parallels between Bjarki and Beowulf he believes to be mere coincidence.
The sandhaug is an extraordinary coincidence, if it is a mere coincidence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere coincidence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
