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
There are almost no digressions on this show, none of the narrative curlicues and flourishes that elevate work above serviceable.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
His whole digression into crypto bros and podcast listeners has been all over my For You pages this week, and for good reason.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2024
As Tomlinson asks Chocolate about their dating decisions at 4:14, the audience seems delighted to leave the heavy topics of mental illness and fatherly failure and follow her on a Gary Gulman–esque digression into fantasyland.
—John Roy, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Prone to digression and omission, the Narrator is elusive despite his constant chattering.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
His whole digression into crypto bros and podcast listeners has been all over my For You pages this week, and for good reason.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2024
As Tomlinson asks Chocolate about their dating decisions at 4:14, the audience seems delighted to leave the heavy topics of mental illness and fatherly failure and follow her on a Gary Gulman–esque digression into fantasyland.
—John Roy, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Prone to digression and omission, the Narrator is elusive despite his constant chattering.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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