Literary notes about coincide (AI summary)
In literary works, "coincide" is frequently employed to indicate the alignment or concurrence of details, events, or viewpoints, whether it be the way memories align with impressions in personal recollections ([1]) or how historical records and scientific observations converge ([2], [3]). Authors use the term to emphasize simultaneous occurrences—such as astronomical events syncing with lunar phases ([4])—as well as to denote congruence in opinions or character traits ([5], [6], [7]). In more technical or abstract contexts, the word may even illustrate logical or mathematical equality ([8], [9]), underscoring its versatile function as both a descriptor of parallelism and a marker of agreement in diverse narrative and discursive settings.
- He is suddenly recalling many details of their acquaintance which coincide with this new impression she is producing—but she is a beautiful woman.
— from Juggernaut: A Veiled Record by Dolores Marbourg - Owing to the imperfection of the records and the absence of reliable memoranda among the surviving officers, no two accounts exactly coincide.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - The Temple was destroyed A. C. 70; the attempt of Julian to rebuild it, and the fact related by Ammianus, coincide with the year 363.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Then the nodes coincide with the full moon and there is an eclipse.
— from The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne - ‘That is because she is self-willed, and my opinions more generally coincide with her own than your mamma’s.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - My conclusions may not coincide with your views upon the subject.
— from Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister by Marion Harland - We shall then see if our opinions coincide.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney - "You can't make circles coincide unless you use the same center and the same radius each time.
— from Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; Or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor Appleton - For inferring equality we have the following formulæ:—Things which being applied to each other coincide, are equals.
— from A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill
