change the subject
idiom
: to start a new topic of conversation
I didn't want to talk about work, so I changed the subject.
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Ariana Grande Wants Nothing Wicked, Cast Has Other Ideas
Yang tries to change the subject by asking Grande how her weekend was.
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Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
Israel’s enemies, including those on college campuses, like to say that this didn’t start on October 7 — a transparent effort to change the subject and downplay the atrocities committed by Hamas on that day.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 Oct. 2024
By the ineluctable logic of Trumpism, of course the ex-President had to do something to change the subject.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
The assassination attempt Saturday and a judge’s ruling dismissing one of Trump’s federal cases Monday — coming as the Republican National Convention unfolds — appear to have offered at least a temporary opportunity for Biden to change the subject and refocus the race on his opponent.
—Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
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Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
Israel’s enemies, including those on college campuses, like to say that this didn’t start on October 7 — a transparent effort to change the subject and downplay the atrocities committed by Hamas on that day.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 Oct. 2024
By the ineluctable logic of Trumpism, of course the ex-President had to do something to change the subject.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
The assassination attempt Saturday and a judge’s ruling dismissing one of Trump’s federal cases Monday — coming as the Republican National Convention unfolds — appear to have offered at least a temporary opportunity for Biden to change the subject and refocus the race on his opponent.
—Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
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“Change the subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/change%20the%20subject. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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