parenthetically
Americanadverb
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Grammar. as a qualification, explanation, or additional piece of information that interrupts a phrase or sentence; between parentheses, dashes, or commas.
Future citations of this work will be made parenthetically in the text.
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as an aside or digression; incidentally.
I only mention that notion parenthetically, so let’s not get into a heavy discussion of it.
The complaint was filed by a resident who, parenthetically, has since decided to run in the upcoming school board election.
Other Word Forms
- interparenthetically adverb
- unparenthetically adverb
Etymology
Origin of parenthetically
Example Sentences
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Penny added, parenthetically, "Because apparently I was 5, not 47."
From Salon
“Do you even want to get into a discussion of gender roles here,” Crane asks parenthetically, “or can we accept that they both chose chores that they minded least or maybe even liked?”
From New York Times
That I shouldn’t be expected to was evidenced by your editor’s belated recognition of this likelihood by the decision to parenthetically define “NIL” 132 words into the article.
From Washington Post
The next May, the president of the society remarked parenthetically that the past year had not yielded any particularly noteworthy discoveries.
From Literature
The words “Nazi/KKK” and “White Supremacy” were parenthetically scrawled around Trump’s name on another vote for Biden.
From The Guardian
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