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Meanings of parenthetical in English

Qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses.

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An expression in parentheses.

Usage of parenthetical in English
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Did you even remember who he was before you hit the parenthetical?
Wired
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Some parenthetical links are dropped here, that is all that is unusual.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
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The parenthetical expressions would really not be needed to supplement the emphatic words.
The Art of Public Speaking
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The peasants use it as a parenthetical verdict whenever they mention our name.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
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St. Paul turns now to a parenthetical discussion which necessarily suggests itself here.
The Books of the New Testament
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The parenthetical phrase at the end was just added-byme.
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
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What clauses in this paragraph are really parenthetical in force?
The Ontario High School Reader
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No mark separates question from answer, digressions from parenthetical observations.
Rashi
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After a parenthetical discussion of difficulties suggested by a possible Jewish opponent (iii.
The Books of the New Testament
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You make a smiley by typing a colon, a hyphen and a right parenthetical bracket.
Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
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These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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Done laughed, giving Aurora a one-armed, parenthetical hug.
In the Roaring Fifties
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Jane's accents were but parenthetical to something else.
A Man and His Money
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Here O'Connor paused to make some parenthetical remarks, with which, indeed, he interlarded the whole letter.
The Lighthouse
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How would you naturally vary the pitch in introducing an explanatory or parenthetical expression like the following:
The Art of Public Speaking
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The times are changed, now most readers require parenthetical elucidation after each name except that of Chopin.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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