incidental

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The main finding: A longer daily walk seems to beat a lot of incidental steps—but there is no need to trek for hours on end.

From The Wall Street Journal

The chaos is not incidental; it’s the method.

From Salon

And whether the cats recovered because they were treated with Tamiflu, or whether the medication was incidental and they’d have recovered on their own — from another virus, infection or ailment — isn’t clear.

From Los Angeles Times

“Within the building itself, you would be shook around so much that there could be incidental injuries to people from falling objects within the building itself,” he told the board.

From Los Angeles Times

It was only later the country learned there had only been one incidental attack, and the second was created as pretext to call it a provocation that required a massive American response.

From Salon