Definition of incidentally adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

incidentally

adverb

/ˌɪnsɪˈdentli/

used to introduce a new topic, or some extra information, or a question that you have just thought of synonym by the way
- Incidentally, have you heard the news about Sue?
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in a way that was not planned but that is connected with something else
- The information was only discovered incidentally.

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