parenthetically
Example Sentences
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“I will tell you, parenthetically, I’m more excited about our next three years’ innovation than what we’ve done in our past three,” he added.
From MarketWatch
Penny added, parenthetically, "Because apparently I was 5, not 47."
From Salon
“Do you even want to get into a discussion of gender roles here,” Crane asks parenthetically, “or can we accept that they both chose chores that they minded least or maybe even liked?”
From New York Times
That I shouldn’t be expected to was evidenced by your editor’s belated recognition of this likelihood by the decision to parenthetically define “NIL” 132 words into the article.
From Washington Post
The next May, the president of the society remarked parenthetically that the past year had not yielded any particularly noteworthy discoveries.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.