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
While Act V., 1 has some sentences cast in the parenthetic form, the expressions used are less lucid than we expect from Massinger.
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
"Upon my word, she's playing her hand rather too openly," Miss Wirt thought; but this observation is merely parenthetic, and was not heard through the crevice of the door at which the governess uttered it.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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