- as a qualification, explanation, or additional piece of information that interrupts a phrase or sentence; between parentheses, dashes, or commas: Future citations of this work will be made parenthetically in the text.
- as an aside or digression; incidentally: I only mention that notion parenthetically, so let’s not get into a heavy discussion of it.The complaint was filed by a resident who, parenthetically, has since decided to run in the upcoming school board election.
