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incidental

1 adjective
     
in‧ci‧den‧tal1
1 happening or existing in connection with something else that is more important:
Increased motivation is more than an incidental benefit of reward schemes.
incidental to
companies that carry out investment business that is incidental to their main activity
2 [not before noun] naturally happening as a result of something
incidental to
Drinking too much is almost incidental to bartending.
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