incidentally
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.
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How to use incidentally in a sentence
That’s 16% above yesterday’s close, which, incidentally, would be “twice the 8% average annual return since 1930,” Goldman notes.
Why Goldman Sachs sees a very different kind of markets rally ahead for 2021 | Bernhard Warner | January 5, 2021 | FortuneThey’re also, incidentally, very easy to make and hard to mess up.
The Best Holiday Cookie Recipes, According to Eater Editors | Meghan McCarron | November 30, 2020 | Eater“Unprecedented” was, incidentally, one of the words being used a lot more than usual this year, the report notes.
Lockdown, superspreader, unprecedented: 2020 has changed the English language, for good | David Meyer | November 23, 2020 | FortuneWhich, incidentally, closely frames our current political life in America today.
Both, incidentally, are major factors across former socialist countries.
J Crew did not give back the money it incidentally made off of Mrs. Obama.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem | Danielle Belton | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTincidentally, 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.
Harsh Truths About Domestic Violence: Why Voicing Terrible Experiences Can Help Others | Lizzie Crocker | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJobs 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.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonHappily, if only incidentally, such self-defence involved the championship of the independence of Scotland.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murisonincidentally we learned that the finest sheep in the world—and vast numbers of them—are produced in Great Britain.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphyincidentally, in making these photographs, great numbers of new nebulæ have been discovered.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward Keeler
British Dictionary definitions for incidentally
/ (ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ) /
as a subordinate or chance occurrence
(sentence modifier) by the way
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