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incidental to
adjective as in dependent
Example Sentences
It was formally adopted in the Congressional Budget Act of 1990 in order to prevent reconciliation bills from being packed with measures that are unrelated or, in the act’s words, “merely incidental” to the budget.
It was almost as if the goal being score was incidental to his overall plan for the game.
Instead, the riots feel incidental to the story.
If and when the network does boost particular politicians, it generally does so in a manner that is incidental to its main mission, which is to demonize the left by peddling an unbroken narrative of its decadence and corruption, thus fostering a tribal mentality in which outsiders start to seem like existential threats.
I wasn’t after infants who are incidental to the plot; I wanted babies whose babyhood was essential to the story.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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