"Histoire" includes the usual disclaimer at the beginning that any similarity to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental, but the narrator, called Franois Jardin, speaks in Mitterrand's inimitable, elegant and cynical prose.

The question was, did the match mean anything, or was it strictly coincidental?

In other words, the similarity of the names is strictly coincidental and does not reflect any ethnic unity beyond Germanic.

Any relation to either majority prerogatives or minority rights-of citizens, that is, as opposed to members of the senatorial club-is strictly coincidental.

That both their middle names are the first names of Star Trek characters is strictly coincidental.

Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

Whether this is to pay homage or is strictly coincidental is unknown.

Any similarity of any organization, device, weapons system, policy, person, or place to any real-world counterpart is strictly coincidental.

For all I know, it's strictly coincidental.

Sometimes it seems that any resemblance between the workplace and Utopia is strictly coincidental.