verb · academic
coincide
UK/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪd/US/ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/co·in·CIDE
Band 7+task2speaking
to happen at the same time or to be exactly the same in nature or result
Examples
“The results of our survey coincide with earlier studies.”
“The festival coincided with the national holiday, so many people attended.”
“Their views on education policy do not always coincide.”
Band 8 sentence
“Where the timelines coincide, we can be more confident that the policy change produced measurable outcomes.”
Collocations
- coincide with
- coincide in (opinions)
Word family
coincidence nouncoincident adjective
Common mistakes
coincide to→coincide with
is coincided→coincides / coincide
Say it for a higher band
5happen→6match→7+coincide
Synonyms
occur at the same time
match
Easily confused
correspond
“Their survey results correspond closely with the official statistics.”
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