By-the-way Definition

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(conjunctive, speech act, idiomatic) Incidentally; a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.

His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.
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adverb

(UK, idiomatic) Irrelevantly, off-topic.

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By-the-way Sentence Examples

  • I can tell by the way he looks at you.

  • He's insane, by the way.

  • I can't stand all the right angles in here, by the way.

  • Basically, it would be categorizing all places by the way that the 11th edition categorized them, which seems like the best way to do it, and possibly the only tenable, self-consistent way to do it.

  • The answer to that one is Psycho, by the way.

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