parenthetic

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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."

From Time Magazine Archive

This again for a moment hushed her, and they were both too grave now for parenthetic pity.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

A dash is used alone or with a comma to inclose a phrase or clause which is parenthetic or explanatory.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

Unluckily I am ignorant of the very rudiments of the matter, so his parenthetic enthusiasms were lost upon me.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography by Morley, John