See by the way in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "First appeared in the 10th century with literal meaning \"by the side of the road\", from Old English weġ (which became \"way\") meaning \"road\". Soon afterward (circa 1000) it came to mean \"during one's journey\". The figurative meaning developed in the mid-16th century, with the first instance of the modern meaning being from 1614.",
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"text": "His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs.",
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"ref": "1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2",
"text": "[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way."
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”",
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"Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened."
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"(conjunctive, idiomatic) Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened."
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "meqë ra fjala"
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"roman": "bi-l-munāsaba",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "بِالْمُنَاسَبَةِ"
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"roman": "ʕalā fikratin",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "bg",
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"word": "впро́чем"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"roman": "gong² hoi¹ jau³ gong²",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "讲开又讲"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "對了"
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"roman": "duìle",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "对了"
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "話說"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "huàshuō",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "话说"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "for resten"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nu dat ik eraan denk"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "d’ailleurs"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sxvata šoris",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "სხვათა შორის"
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"word": "übrigens"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "epí ti efkairía",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "επί τη ευκαιρία"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "agáv",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגַּב"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "वैसे"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "egyébként"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mellesleg"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "vel á minnst"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "incidentally",
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"formal"
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"word": "meðal annarra orða"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ngomong ngomong"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dála an scéil"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a proposito"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "incidentalmente"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "per caso"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tokoro de",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ところで"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chinami ni",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ちなみに"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geureonde",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "그런데"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "cham",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "참"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "obiter"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "starp citu"
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{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "beje"
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{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tarp kitko"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem réčeno",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем ре́чено"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dich siá en passant"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "راستی"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "swoją drogą"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "(a) tak w ogóle"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "przy okazji"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nawiasem mówiąc"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "na marginesie"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aliás"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por sinal"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "diga-se de passagem"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "já agora"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"roman": "kstáti",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "кста́ти"
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"roman": "méždu próčim",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ме́жду про́чим"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dà sgeul"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dhà sheanchas"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "sl",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mímogredé"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "förresten"
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "för övrigt"
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "annaṭṭu",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "అన్నట్టు"
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "aklıma gelmişken"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "bu arada"
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{
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "до ре́чі"
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"roman": "agev",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגבֿ"
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"code": "yi",
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"roman": "agev-urkhe",
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"text": "His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs.",
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"ref": "1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2",
"text": "[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way."
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”",
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"sense": "incidentally",
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "obiter"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "starp citu"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "beje"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tarp kitko"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pátem réčeno",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "па́тем ре́чено"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "forresten"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dich siá en passant"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "راستی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "swoją drogą"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "(a) tak w ogóle"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "przy okazji"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "à propos"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nawiasem mówiąc"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "na marginesie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aliás"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por sinal"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "diga-se de passagem"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "já agora"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "apropo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kstáti",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "кста́ти"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "méždu próčim",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ме́жду про́чим"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dà sgeul"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "eadar dhà sheanchas"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "у̏згре̄д"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
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"word": "ȕzgrēd"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
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"word": "ùspūt"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mimochodom"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "mímogredé"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "por cierto"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "de paso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a propósito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "dicho sea de paso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "a todo esto"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "förresten"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "för övrigt"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "annaṭṭu",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "అన్నట్టు"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "aklıma gelmişken"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "bu arada"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "sırası gelmişken"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "do réči",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "до ре́чі"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "miž ínšym",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "між і́ншим"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "vaise",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "ویسے"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "nhân đây"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "à này"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "tiện thể"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "gyda llaw"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "agev",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגבֿ"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "agev-urkhe",
"sense": "incidentally",
"word": "אַגבֿ־אורחא"
}
],
"word": "by the way"
}
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"etymology_text": "First appeared in the 10th century with literal meaning \"by the side of the road\", from Old English weġ (which became \"way\") meaning \"road\". Soon afterward (circa 1000) it came to mean \"during one's journey\". The figurative meaning developed in the mid-16th century, with the first instance of the modern meaning being from 1614.",
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"glosses": [
"Irrelevantly, off-topic."
],
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"Irrelevantly",
"irrelevantly"
],
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