as in rambling
passing from one topic to another
a digressive lecture on current events around the world
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Recent Examples of digressive
The animated brothers are rarely without weed for long, and their surreal adventures through gentrifying Brooklyn are filled with digressive side quests that maintain a stoner’s perfectly loopy internal logic.
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
The conversations—with Moyra Davey, Jacqueline Rose, and Simone White, among others—are as varied as the respective ties between the interlocutors, who are in some cases meeting over video and in others exchanging long, digressive dialogue via e-mail.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024
With a playful, digressive style, Moghaddam considers the layers of the hijab and the ways that a dress code both enables and disables self-expression.
—Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
The conversations—with Moyra Davey, Jacqueline Rose, and Simone White, among others—are as varied as the respective ties between the interlocutors, who are in some cases meeting over video and in others exchanging long, digressive dialogue via e-mail.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024
With a playful, digressive style, Moghaddam considers the layers of the hijab and the ways that a dress code both enables and disables self-expression.
—Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Digressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressive. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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