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as an aside

as an aside adverb: incidentally; by the way.

Adverb

as an aside (not comparable)

  1. incidentally; 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

Questions about as an aside

What does as an aside mean?
As an aside means incidentally; by the way.
What part of speech is as an aside?
As an aside is an adverb.

Words near as an aside in the dictionary

  1. as all get out
  2. as all get-out
  3. as all hell
  4. as along as
  5. as always
  6. as an aside
  7. as and when
  8. as anything
  9. as Australian as Vegemite
  10. as balls
  11. as be damned

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