digression

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. 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 See All Example Sentences for digression
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tangent
Noun
  • Critics, however, often take issue with unusual, and sometimes bizarre, tangents during public remarks.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
  • 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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