incidental
偶然的,附带的,偶发性的,偶发的
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Definitions
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- : happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- : incurred casually and in addition to the regular or main amount: incidental expenses.
- : likely to happen or naturally appertaining.
- 1
- : something incidental, as a circumstance.
- : incidentals, minor expenses.
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Examples
Medical professionals continue to push back against a body-worn camera video released by the Sheriff’s Department purporting to show a deputy overdosing from incidental contact with fentanyl in a San Marcos parking lot in July.
Many breakthrough cases seem to be entirely asymptomatic, only being detected through routine or incidental testing.
It found “incidental deficiencies” that did not merit any fines or corrective action.
By contrast, retailing plays an almost incidental role in “Amazon Unbound.”
One incidental benefit of the charter school movement is that it put pressure on traditional public schools – and society as a whole – to do something about it.
Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
Decorative value is largely incidental to artistic merit as defined by critics.
The party the mayor seeks is one in which inequality is the central focus of the platform rather than incidental to it.
The problem of “incidental impact” arises in many different contexts.
Do not mistake the epic graft in Sochi as unusual or incidental.
Casual employment in the Connecticut act means occasional or incidental employment.