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incidental

[in-si-den-tl] / ˌɪn sɪˈdɛn tl /


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"The dark grey, achromatic basin was not incidental to the design," it says.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Alongside that, she has come to embody something quieter: an understated ease that makes even high fashion seem incidental.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“This is not incidental capital, it represents roughly one-fifth of the total transaction value,” Booker and the others wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Traveling through another dimension provides, as an incidental benefit, a kind of X-ray vision.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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