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incidental to

/in-si-den-tl/US // ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tl //UK // (ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəl) //

附属于,附带的,附带,附带于

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
    • : incurred casually and in addition to the regular or main amount: incidental expenses.
    • : likely to happen or naturally appertaining.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something incidental, as a circumstance.
    • : incidentals, minor expenses.

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Examples

  • Medical professionals continue to push back against a body-worn camera video released by the Sheriff’s Department purporting to show a deputy overdosing from incidental contact with fentanyl in a San Marcos parking lot in July.

  • Many breakthrough cases seem to be entirely asymptomatic, only being detected through routine or incidental testing.

  • It found “incidental deficiencies” that did not merit any fines or corrective action.

  • By contrast, retailing plays an almost incidental role in “Amazon Unbound.”

  • One incidental benefit of the charter school movement is that it put pressure on traditional public schools – and society as a whole – to do something about it.

  • Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.

  • Decorative value is largely incidental to artistic merit as defined by critics.

  • The party the mayor seeks is one in which inequality is the central focus of the platform rather than incidental to it.

  • The problem of “incidental impact” arises in many different contexts.

  • Do not mistake the epic graft in Sochi as unusual or incidental.

  • Casual employment in the Connecticut act means occasional or incidental employment.

  • How just is this sentiment, so simply phrased, incidental to the passionate and feverish colour of the painter!

  • For the first time it was no longer disguised from sight by the incidental interest of its side issues.

  • Incidental features of sex hygiene will arise naturally from physical education and can be adequately treated there.

  • The painter will do well to look on them as something incidental merely to the picture.