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incidental

[in-si-den-tl] / ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tl /


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People are incidental to Godzilla’s destructive marches through cities or transoceanic swims.

From Salon

Amid them, the ballet moves seem more incidental than poetically potent.

From The Wall Street Journal

Generally, the deduction is designed for expenses that are incidental to research and development, such as rent, utilities and other overhead.

From Barron's

In Ms. Paces’s grand narrative of Czech history, Prague can sometimes feels like a secondary, incidental character.

From The Wall Street Journal

The net effect: Nvidia can afford to dial back its earnings spin, because the expense on its income statement for stock-based pay is incidental compared with its true economic cost.

From The Wall Street Journal