as in in passing
by way of interjection or digression
incidentally, have you seen the new building they're putting up?
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Lively, incidentally, was also at SXSW this past weekend, at the premiere of her Another Simple Favor movie with Anna Kendrick.
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Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
That’s incidentally the last name that Meghan and Harry recorded on the birth certificates for their children Archie and Lilibet, English reported.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
Carville’s case for doing nothing, incidentally, is not merely some provocative outlier.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Limon was writing, incidentally, just a year before the nation would profess to have its sense of humor upended.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
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Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
That’s incidentally the last name that Meghan and Harry recorded on the birth certificates for their children Archie and Lilibet, English reported.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
Carville’s case for doing nothing, incidentally, is not merely some provocative outlier.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Limon was writing, incidentally, just a year before the nation would profess to have its sense of humor upended.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Incidentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incidentally. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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