- a variation of parenthetical.
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
The position of an adverb is, in respect to matters of syntax, pre-eminently parenthetic; i.e., it may be omitted without injuring the construction.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath, and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
Mrs. Memorall interjected, with a parenthetic glance at the mirror.
From The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
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