🇬🇧 Concurrence meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

“Concurrence” means that two or more things are happening together at the same time, like twin events. It doesn’t say why they happen together, just that they do. For example, if it starts raining right when you spill your drink, that’s a concurrence: the rain and the spill are different things, but they happen at the same moment. It’s like the world saying, “Let’s do this all at once!”

The concurrence of my burp and my cousin’s scream during the class photo will haunt the yearbook forever.

A rare concurrence happened when my baby sister stopped crying and my dad stopped snoring at the exact same time.

In an unlucky concurrence, I tripped in gym class exactly when the coach yelled, “Show me your best move!”

A wild concurrence happened when Grandma shouted, “I’m young!” while her dentures flew out like tiny rockets.

In astronomy, a solar eclipse is a concurrence of the Sun, Moon, and Earth lining up so perfectly that day suddenly looks like night.

At the pond two children let paper boats go in concurrence. The concurrence made the boats bob and turn toward each other. A dog barked, and a sudden wind came in concurrence; the boats met. In concurrence the children laughed, hands touching over the water. They kept the boats together, a small, bright concurrence of joy.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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