coincide with

coincide with (something)

1. To happen at the same time as something else. Election day is going to coincide with the festival, so they are expecting a low turnout.
2. To match or be identical to something. My personality just coincides with his—that's why we get along so well.
See also: coincide
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

coincide with something

to agree with or match something; [for something] to happen at the same time as something else. This pattern coincides with the pattern we see in the carpet. My birthday sometimes coincides with Thanksgiving Day.
See also: coincide
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • coincide
  • coincide with (something)
  • turn around and (do something)
  • turn round/around and do something
  • just in time
  • any day now
  • any minute, day, time, etc. now
  • lag behind
  • lagging
  • lag
References in classic literature
Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day-labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.
Sense and Sensibility
You will scream at me (that is, if you condescend to do so) that no one is touching my free will, that all they are concerned with is that my will should of itself, of its own free will, coincide with my own normal interests, with the laws of nature and arithmetic.
Notes from the Underground
It will be necessary, therefore, to wait for the moment when her passage in perigee shall coincide with that in the zenith.
From The Earth To The Moon
He had only to make the date at which the loan expired coincide with the date of his marriage, and there was his father-in-law's money at his disposal, or at his wife's disposal--which meant the same thing.
Miss or Mrs
In the theatre especially, a single expression which doth not coincide with the taste of the audience, or with any individual critic of that audience, is sure to be hissed; and one scene which should be disapproved would hazard the whole piece.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weathercock on the town-house, by adjusting the annual and diurnal motions of the earth and sun, so as to answer and coincide with all accidental turnings of the wind.
Gullivers Travels
According to municipality officials, the surprise inspections coincide with the Holy Month of Ramadan.
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In any case the third Monday of December might not coincide with Christmas.
Let's not switch to December elections
This study coincide with the study of Rush JA, et al.
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I want the President's words to coincide with the actions.
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DAME Shirley Bassey looks set to visit the capital in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary of her 60 years in showbusiness.
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The new flights commenced yesterday (June 28, 2012), and coincide with this year's edition of the Salalah Tourism Festival (STF 2012), Dhofar's biggest annual cultural and entertainment show that attracts thousands of local, regional and international tourists every year.
Air Arabia launches direct Salalah flights
The explosions in Baghdad coincide with a tense political situation the country after weeks of relative stability.
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