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BY THE BYE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Introducing a different topic

Example:

incidentally, I won't go to the party

Synonyms:

apropos; by the bye; by the way; incidentally

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Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

And, by the bye, can I or my housekeeper be of any use to you with our opinion?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

By the bye—I have not wished you joy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Emma spoke her pity so very kindly, that with a sudden accession of gay thought, he cried, “Ah! by the bye,” then sinking his voice, and looking demure for the moment—“I hope Mr. Knightley is well?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Its effect upon her appears in the immediate resolution it produced: as soon as she found I was really gone from Randalls, she closed with the offer of that officious Mrs. Elton; the whole system of whose treatment of her, by the bye, has ever filled me with indignation and hatred.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)