as in tangentially
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Recent Examples of parenthetically
Cruises that parenthetically include Rome in their itineraries actually dock in Civitavecchia, which is about an hour and a half away without traffic.
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Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parenthetically
Adverb
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Now adults, after a childhood marred with tragedy, Guin flogs a memoir only tangentially related to the truth, and Ennis stages a new art exhibit, despite what happened at the last one.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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Just as anything peripherally involved with the data center is blessed, anything even tangentially associated with pharma is a nightmare.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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And then secondarily, this is all about verification.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 June 2026
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More to Explore Abrahm and Kenter also argue that Tik-Tok essentially follows the Three Laws of Robotics that Asimov would lay down decades later—robots must first prioritize human lives, secondarily obey orders from humans, and only consider their own welfare after that.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
19 May 2026
Adverb
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But all this stuff incidentally comes out, all this emotion.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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The first is a large retrospective—incidentally, his first—currently on view at Delhi’s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
4 June 2026
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“Parenthetically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parenthetically. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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