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 There are almost no digressions on this show, none of the narrative curlicues and flourishes that elevate work above serviceable. 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 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 22 Jan. 2025.

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