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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Recent Examples of incidentally
Two of the biggest roars of the game came at halftime, incidentally.
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Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
Ford dreamed up the atomic-age Nucleon, powered by a tiny nugget of uranium and incidentally requiring tons of lead shielding to protect anyone who came within a football field of the thing.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app, incidentally ending a $1 billion deal with Disney in the process.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
At the close of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (which, incidentally, features an admirable character called Bottom the Weaver), a play is to be performed for Duke Theseus and his bride, the Amazon Hippolyta, with a prologue spoken by the director.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
Ford dreamed up the atomic-age Nucleon, powered by a tiny nugget of uranium and incidentally requiring tons of lead shielding to protect anyone who came within a football field of the thing.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app, incidentally ending a $1 billion deal with Disney in the process.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
At the close of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (which, incidentally, features an admirable character called Bottom the Weaver), a play is to be performed for Duke Theseus and his bride, the Amazon Hippolyta, with a prologue spoken by the director.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Incidentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incidentally. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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