as an aside

adverb

incidentally; by the way

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Meanings

adverbas an aside (not comparable)
  1. not comparableincidentally; by the way

    He [Jude Bellingham] rose to angle a perfect header into the far, top corner. As an aside, Bellingham’s first-half passing statistics showed 40 attempts and 40 completions, 10 of them in the final third.

    21 November 2022, David Hytner, “England open World Cup in style with Bukayo Saka double in 6-2 rout of Iran”, in The Guardian
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APA

as an aside. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20an%20aside

MLA

“as an aside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20an%20aside. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “as an aside,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20an%20aside.

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