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What does incidentally mean?

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Adverb
  1. (manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
  2. By chance; in an unplanned way.
  3. (speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.
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Lincoln's status as a great patenter, incidentally, stems from a single patent for a device for lifting riverboats over shoals.
Its name, incidentally, comes from the hardy and resilient zamia palm found in central Queensland.
A zettabyte, incidentally, is roughly half a million times the entire collections of all the academic libraries in the United States.
We are bound to defend those whom we hear aspersed, and who are spoken unworthily of by the persons whom we incidentally encounter.
They were married by a celebrant and, incidentally, it's the first non-church wedding I've ever been to.
Many patients are diagnosed incidentally in the asymptomatic phase by plain radiographs that show localized enlargement of bone.

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