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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Tristram relates this tale of woe in a tangle of digressions, punctuated with breathless dashes.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
As recently as his Republican convention speech, Trump gave a talk that was provided to the press in advance, sticking to the script and then going off-book for a seemingly endless series of digressions, deviations and detours into the Twilight Zone.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2025
Carlo Emilio Gadda, for example, was an old-school modernist, interested in wordplay and dialect and spiraling digressions.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The answer to the above question requires a digression, or at least a pivot.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
As recently as his Republican convention speech, Trump gave a talk that was provided to the press in advance, sticking to the script and then going off-book for a seemingly endless series of digressions, deviations and detours into the Twilight Zone.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2025
Carlo Emilio Gadda, for example, was an old-school modernist, interested in wordplay and dialect and spiraling digressions.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The answer to the above question requires a digression, or at least a pivot.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for digression
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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