coincide
/ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/ verb B2- To occupy exactly the same space. · The two squares coincide nicely.
- To occur at the same time. · The conference will coincide with his vacation.
- To correspond, concur, or agree. · Our ideas coincide, except in certain areas.
He/she/it coincides · Past coincided · Past participle coincided · -ing form coinciding
Verb forms
- Base form
- coincide
- He/she/it
- coincides
- Past
- coincided
- Past participle
- coincided
- -ing form
- coinciding
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Morrel appeared and was saluted with an enthusiastic burst of applause from the crew of the Pharaon, who hailed the visit of the shipowner as a sure indication that the man whose wedding feast he thus delighted to honor would ere long be first in command of the ship; and as Dantès was universally beloved on board his vessel, the sailors put no restraint on their tumultuous joy at finding that the opinion and choice of their superiors so exactly coincided with their own.
I could perceive that the track of blood coincided with the track of his feet.
I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.”
His present pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention, the first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired; and in his manner of bidding her adieu, wishing her every enjoyment, reminding her of what she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their opinion of her--their opinion of everybody--would always coincide, there was a solicitude, an interest, which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced, that, whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
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