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noun

as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration as an aside, something similar happened to me years ago

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Recent Examples of aside
Adverb
Set a savings goal Conventional wisdom suggests having at least three months' worth of expenses set aside, though financial experts are increasingly recommending people have closer to six in a shaky economy and job market. Rachel Barber, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025 Scraping alternatives For those who have opted in, the Army Corps of Engineers is cleaning up properties where structures burned by removing 6 inches of soil in a burn area and transporting it to landfills set aside for toxic soils. Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
Should the tale of a 600-year-old artist, with its technical asides on the art of the fresco, come before the tale of modern-day teenage angst? Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025 The book follows Tom’s moral development, guided by three matriarchal fairies—with political and scientific asides—and the whole can be read as an allegory for the moral principles inhering in evolutionary processes. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aside
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aside
Adverb
  • The basic premise of DeSantis’s primary candidacy—that Republicans wanted Trumpism without Trump—fell apart once the former president started hoovering up media attention and gained a wide lead in the polls.
    Drew Nelles, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
  • With title races across Europe’s elite struggling for excitement this season, the 24-team Pitching In Isthmian Premier League stands apart.
    Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Medford Police Department As their journey continued, Ford says Jones began going off on tangents.
    Lauren A. White, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Several times throughout the series, Alec will start to delve into a tangent about, well, literally anything: the history of the Hamptons, the history of Long Island, the ocean, the Suffolk County water authority, old houses in their neighborhood.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Most of its details are still hidden away in a secret Koenigsegg vault while awaiting patent protection.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In the beginning of the movie, Karsh goes on a date, but his grief scares the woman away.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The Santa Clara Master Gardeners Spring Garden Fair is a terrific place to select plants not readily available elsewhere, selected for outstanding taste, beauty and performance in the local soil and climate.
    Debby Rice, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Middle East is a new location for Chinese with the United States as the two superpowers are also at odds elsewhere, not least over Taiwan and the South China Sea and with rising there.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Discounts go up to 61 percent off and prices start at $9.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Burnout is rampant, not from lack of time off, but from the inability to truly disconnect.
    Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Starting in spring training, Mets officials applauded Vientos for taking, for instance, 2-1 sliders down and away.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Minnesota was down by 15 points when Edwards took a pass from Julius Randle, gathered himself and attacked the basket.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aside. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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