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 smooth gliding of the voice in parenthetic clauses, etc.
From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
Both of them are frankly parenthetic; both parentheses are superfluous; neither has any incidental beauty to redeem it; and, above all, we may be sure that Pippa did not think in parentheses.
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
Returning from this parenthetic remark, we are concerned here chiefly to remember that, as said at the outset, there existed thirty years ago, no tenable theory about the genesis of living things.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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