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parenthetic

ADJECTIVE
  1. qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses
    parenthetical remarks

How To Use parenthetic In A Sentence

  • Every time I see an article about this heavily buzzed flick (or in this case NOT about ...), the author just HAS to drop a parenthetic snark to show everyone that he/she has an opinion. TR2N Helmer Joseph Kosinski Directs Gears of War 2 | /Film
  • Here Mark gives a little parenthetical comment he says, "By saying this,Jesus declared all foods clean." In other words, Mark does a good little Gentile Christianity move.
  • The moment one begins to unpack the box though, to explain the simplest text, where it comes from, where it goes, one begins to see the parenthetic and digressive manner of imbrication of text and context.
  • As gimmicky as that parenthetical R may seem, the crucial point it (and the performances) made was that as explosive and timbrally exotic as Varèse's music can be, its structures are actually comfortingly traditional. NYT > Home Page
  • Now, onto your thoughts, (parenthetic asides are my own) ... Jennifer Bogut: Here's My Take #4: Here's What I think About Campaign Spending And Negative Advertising...
  • I think that last sentence with its circumlocutions and three parenthetical digressions is indicative of my distracted or distractible state of mind ... Breakfast in Bed
  • Frances, who had noted the parenthetical `of course you know that too ', was partially reassured. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
  • The inclusion of a parenthetical clause, as in this case, would not normally alter the meaning of the provision into which it is inserted though what is required to satisfy it may well be different.
  • It's both the parenthetic *d and the unexplained ablaut that really bugs me... a lot. Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads
  • He'd never shared secrets readily, kept his private life private, but now he was becoming parenthetical: he felt like an eclipsed moon. THE TATTOOED GIRL
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