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incidentally

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

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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

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adverb

as a subordinate or chance occurrence
sentence modifier by the way

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Word History and Origins

Origin of incidentally¹

First recorded in 1655–65; incidental + -ly

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They are also, not incidentally, highly useful to human society, producing honey and beeswax — both of which are used in a wide range of products — while also pollinating the plants that feed us.

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The seasonal arc might be described as “cumulative episodic,” in which discrete stories incidentally detail the assembly of a slate of pictures.

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The police, incidentally, will forever defend the decision to deploy that famous tent.

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Colorado’s attorneys urged the court to affirm the view that “the 1st Amendment allows states to reasonably regulate professional conduct to protect patients from substandard treatment, even when that regulation incidentally burdens speech.”

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The health industry, in this telling, is willing literally — rather than just incidentally — to kill to keep people sick.

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