as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
the professor's frequent and extended digressions are the stuff of campus legend
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Recent Examples of digression
Spread across a larger ensemble, with more side alleys and self-amusing authorial digressions, The Barbarians is more diffuse.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
Trump’s digressions in his speeches could be laughed away in his first term.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
The metafictional form of the book and its digressions on the nature of novel writing itself are deliberately off-putting and call into question the narrative’s truthfulness.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
Spread across a larger ensemble, with more side alleys and self-amusing authorial digressions, The Barbarians is more diffuse.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
Trump’s digressions in his speeches could be laughed away in his first term.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
The metafictional form of the book and its digressions on the nature of novel writing itself are deliberately off-putting and call into question the narrative’s truthfulness.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
Spread across a larger ensemble, with more side alleys and self-amusing authorial digressions, The Barbarians is more diffuse.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for digression
tangent
Noun
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Critics, however, often take issue with unusual, and sometimes bizarre, tangents during public remarks.—
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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The tangent the scene takes disrupts our perception of this particular location as it’s been established throughout the prior 50 minutes or so.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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