incidental
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.