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incidental
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Never Let Me Go
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- Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.†
p. 4.8incidentally = of something that comes with something else, but is less important than it
- None of us, incidentally, was particularly bothered about it; in fact, I remember some people being pleased we could have sex without worrying about all of that—though proper sex was still some way off for most of us at that stage.†
p. 73.2 *
- Gay sex, incidentally, was something we were even more confused about.†
p. 96.3
- There was, incidentally, something I noticed about these veteran couples at the Cottages—something Ruth, for all her close study of them, failed to spot—and this was how so many of their mannerisms were copied from the television.†
p. 120.7
- These magazines, incidentally, used to drive old Keffers mad.†
p. 133.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(incidental as in: an incidental expense) something that comes with something else, but is less important than itsometimes in a specialized sense, including:
- incidental expenses or when in context, just incidentals -- minor expenses not budgeted or not specified
- incidental music -- music in a play, television program, radio program, video game or some other form not primarily musical. (The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the film score or soundtrack.)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)