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as in by the way

by way of interjection or digression He mentioned by the by that he had never been to Paris.

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But Candle House has also come up with stories squarely in the realm of realism — which also, by the way, follows in the footsteps of Rod Serling.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
But thank you very much, Nebraska, for Fred Astaire, Johnny Carson and Henry Fonda, who, by the way, was born in Grand Island, where Trump made his cracks about California.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026

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