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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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Only incidentally did it become a landing stage where houses multiplied and barges moored.
Its name, incidentally, comes from the hardy and resilient zamia palm found in central Queensland.
He leant back in his chair, as if he was only incidentally present in the courtroom.
A zettabyte, incidentally, is roughly half a million times the entire collections of all the academic libraries in the United States.
He turned out for his native Derrybeg, where incidentally he lived for forty years, and later went on to manage the team.
We are bound to defend those whom we hear aspersed, and who are spoken unworthily of by the persons whom we incidentally encounter.

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