incidentally
[in-si-den-tl-ee or for 1, -dent-lee]
- apart or aside from the main subject of attention, discussion, etc.; by the way; parenthetically.
- in an incidental manner.
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Origin of incidentally
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Examples from the Web for incidentally
Contemporary Examples
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.
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Jobs could have been very fortunate; a medical exam for something else incidentally picked up an early pancreatic carcinoma.
Historical Examples
I know that he has drawn money—papa's salary and his own: he mentioned it incidentally.
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
Incidentally, too, he spoke of the opinion he had given in Salvat's affair.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Incidentally Mrs. Osbourne had never before been so advanced in her language.
Southern Lights and ShadowsVarious
Incidentally, the staples are so placed as to make binding simple.
Afterwards I went into Rhodesia, and incidentally made money.
The AvengerE. Phillips Oppenheim
incidentally
- as a subordinate or chance occurrence
- (sentence modifier) by the way
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Word Origin and History for incidentally
adv.
1520s, "by the way, casually;" see incidental + -ly (2). Sense of "as a new but related point" attested by 1925.
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