Saturday 8 August 2015

expressions - A word or phrase for an unremarkable event that occurs with uncanny frequency

I am looking for a word or phrase for an unremarkable event that occurs with uncanny frequency.



To give a specific example, one might be seeing a random shopper drop their bag every time you enter a certain grocery store. Similarly, one might find that a certain movie is on TV far more frequently than they would expect.



I suppose it's sort of like déjà vu, the uncanny feeling that something has happened before, except that the something actually did happen and it's uncanny because it happened again when it was unremarkable and occurred at a much higher frequency than expected.



Although I'm aware that there are aspects of psychology that would explain this, such as confirmation bias, I'm more interested in a word that would describe the event itself in relation to it seeming uncanny.



Does such a word or phrase exist?

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