entirely incidental
Frequency: 6.04.5 per million words
To strongly emphasize that something happens only by chance, without intention.
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- Their meeting was entirely incidental; they just happened to be in the same café.
- The success of the project was entirely incidental to their original goals.
- Any overlap in their findings proved to be entirely incidental, not intentional.
- His presence at the event was entirely incidental, as he was there for another purpose.
- She found the solution entirely incidental to her main research.
- The discovery of the ancient artifact was entirely incidental to the road construction.
- The similarities between the two cases are entirely incidental.
- Such unexpected benefits are often entirely incidental to the primary objective.
- He stressed that the negative consequences were entirely incidental and unforeseen.
- The sudden drop in prices was entirely incidental to the new policy.