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It wasn't so much the fact of your having looked up the word, since I had no knowledge of where you looked it up, but from the fact of your having used the past perfect to describe that looking up.

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Okay, folks, this is getting almost creepy. About four times in the last few days, I've been experiencing weird coincidences of seeing or hearing something, then seeing/hearing the same thing in a different place. For ex., I was watching a TV show where a character said so-and-so would be the last man standing; then I turned to the listings, and there was the movie Last Man Standing.
Yesterday I was reading a magazine article about a woman who created something called Jibbitz, from the word flibbertigibbet; I come here today, and here it is!

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"You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!"
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I have a similar experience once in a while, usually as a word or topic occurring from different sources within seconds. It's just enough to mess with my mind about probability or a cosmic jester, not enough for me to take it as a gift or a curse.

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I believe it was the Good Doctor A. who said, "I'd be surprised if these sorts of coincidences didn't occur."

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