coincide with something

coincide with something
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.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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