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BY THE WAY
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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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Context examples:
By the way, mister, talking of Jack James, it seems to me you don’t do much to cover your men.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Administration of a drug by the way of absorption through the skin, usually for systemic action.
(Percutaneous Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
By the way, she seems brighter this last day or two.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They both had little bright round twinkling eyes, by the way, which were like birds' eyes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It flowed along smoothly, and neither fear nor foe lurked by the way.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He is making straight for me, and I can see, by the way he lifts his hat, that he wants to talk....
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
By the way, what is this mark upon the iguanodon's hide?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His arm, by the way, has healed nicely, though the scar will remain all his life.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Well, then,” replied Miss Crawford, laughing, “I must suppose it to be purely for the pleasure of conveying your brother, and of talking of you by the way.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Research published by Albert Le Floch and Guy Ropars of French University of Rennes claims dyslexia may be caused by the way the photoreceptors in their eyes are arranged.
(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)
