as in tangentially
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In this instance, the event was only tangentially related to the firm’s practice area of vehicular accidents.
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Now adults, after a childhood marred with tragedy, Guin flogs a memoir only tangentially related to the truth, and Ennis stages a new art exhibit, despite what happened at the last one.
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An exception is the gut microorganism Monocercomonoides, in which mitochondria have been secondarily lost.
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And then secondarily, this is all about verification.
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Asymptomatic lesions discovered incidentally in populations could also be monitored en masse to generate a robust database that would help researchers learn which types of lesions are more (or less) likely to turn malignant.
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But Ghana kept possession, and Antoine Semenyo incidentally ended up blocking a subsequent shot from his own teammate.
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“Parenthetically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parenthetically. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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