verb · academic
coincide
UK/kəʊˈɪn.saɪd/US/koʊˈɪn.saɪd/co·IN·cide
Band 7+speakingtask2
to happen at the same time or to be in agreement/line with something
Examples
“The arrival of the new species coincided with changes in the climate.”
“Their opinions on that issue do not coincide.”
“If two trends coincide, it is hard to tell which causes which.”
Band 8 sentence
“It was striking how the drop in pollution coincided with the closure of several factories.”
Collocations
- coincide with
- coincide exactly
Word family
coincidence nouncoincident adjective
Common mistakes
coincide the results→coincide with the results
coincideded→coincided
Say it for a higher band
5happen at the same time→6overlap→7+coincide
Synonyms
concur
correspond
Easily confused
concur
“The committee members concurred with the proposal.”
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