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incidentally

/in-si-den-tl-ee or, for 1, -dent-lee/US // ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tl i or, for 1, -ˈdɛnt li //UK // (ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ) //

刚巧,刚好,附带一提,附带地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : apart or aside from the main subject of attention, discussion, etc.; by the way; parenthetically.
    • : in an incidental manner.

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Examples

  • That’s 16% above yesterday’s close, which, incidentally, would be “twice the 8% average annual return since 1930,” Goldman notes.

  • They’re also, incidentally, very easy to make and hard to mess up.

  • “Unprecedented” was, incidentally, one of the words being used a lot more than usual this year, the report notes.

  • Which, incidentally, closely frames our current political life in America today.

  • Both, incidentally, are major factors across former socialist countries.

  • 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.

  • Jobs could have been very fortunate; a medical exam for something else incidentally picked up an early pancreatic carcinoma.

  • And, incidentally, to encourage retiring and diffident lady interviewers.

  • Some of them appear incidentally in the text, though only where it seems absolutely necessary to name them.

  • Happily, if only incidentally, such self-defence involved the championship of the independence of Scotland.

  • Incidentally we learned that the finest sheep in the world—and vast numbers of them—are produced in Great Britain.

  • Incidentally, in making these photographs, great numbers of new nebulæ have been discovered.