entirely incidental

Frequency: 6.04.5 per million words

To strongly emphasize that something happens only by chance, without intention.

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Examples (10)

  • 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.