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incidentally

[ in-si-den-tl-ee -dent-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

apart or aside from the main subject of attention, discussion, etc.; by the way; parenthetically:
Incidentally, while you were waiting for the officer to run your registration through the system, did you notice if the post office was open?
in the course of something else, and not intentionally:
The bone fractures were discovered only incidentally, during an unrelated CT scan of her chest.

incidentally

/ ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ /

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First recorded in 1655–65; incidental + -ly

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That’s 16% above yesterday’s close, which, incidentally, would be “twice the 8% average annual return since 1930,” Goldman notes.

They’re also, incidentally, very easy to make and hard to mess up.

“Unprecedented” was, incidentally, one of the words being used a lot more than usual this year, the report notes.

Which, incidentally, closely frames our current political life in America today.

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Both, incidentally, are major factors across former socialist countries.

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J Crew did not give back the money it incidentally made off of Mrs. Obama.

Incidentally, Rousteing has no qualms with fast-fashion brands appropriating his designs either.

The bye bye is being sung, incidentally, by mothers to their babies condemned to death by King Herod.

What was taken away, incidentally, was a $40 million-plus contract.

Jobs could have been very fortunate; a medical exam for something else incidentally picked up an early pancreatic carcinoma.

And, incidentally, to encourage retiring and diffident lady interviewers.

Some of them appear incidentally in the text, though only where it seems absolutely necessary to name them.

Happily, if only incidentally, such self-defence involved the championship of the independence of Scotland.

Incidentally we learned that the finest sheep in the world—and vast numbers of them—are produced in Great Britain.

Incidentally, in making these photographs, great numbers of new nebulæ have been discovered.

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