as in tangents
a departure from the subject under consideration
as an aside, something similar happened to me years ago
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Recent Examples of asides
There are frequent funny asides and philosophical musings.
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
The rapper leaned into the role’s humor, adding playful asides and earning laughs from the crowd.
—Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
For all its eye-popping song-and-dance numbers and amusing asides, the show seems to forget that the novel is a tragedy.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
Infantino presided over the events with jocular asides and instant recall of previous matches and scores.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Shah’s closest ally (and the person most willing to call Shah on his lies to himself and others) is his cousin Zulfi, a gigantic character who Khan energizes with fast-talking charm, sarcastic asides, and an assessing glare that can cut through anyone’s defenses.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
The Artemis crew is now in a lunar flyby, during which they're expected to see both the near and far asides of the moon and engage in intense lunar observation.
—CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Their conversation would often go off the rails thanks to humous asides and stories.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026
Once Ida is revived, Buckley is rife with tics and guttural asides, switching between rat-a-tat mobster slang and Shelley’s flowery English prose like some postmodern literary Gollum.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
The rapper leaned into the role’s humor, adding playful asides and earning laughs from the crowd.
—Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
For all its eye-popping song-and-dance numbers and amusing asides, the show seems to forget that the novel is a tragedy.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
Infantino presided over the events with jocular asides and instant recall of previous matches and scores.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Shah’s closest ally (and the person most willing to call Shah on his lies to himself and others) is his cousin Zulfi, a gigantic character who Khan energizes with fast-talking charm, sarcastic asides, and an assessing glare that can cut through anyone’s defenses.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
The Artemis crew is now in a lunar flyby, during which they're expected to see both the near and far asides of the moon and engage in intense lunar observation.
—CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Their conversation would often go off the rails thanks to humous asides and stories.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026
Once Ida is revived, Buckley is rife with tics and guttural asides, switching between rat-a-tat mobster slang and Shelley’s flowery English prose like some postmodern literary Gollum.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for asides
Noun
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The show includes a nightly improv section where Mindelle launches into extended tangents about everything from celebrity relationships to political scandals to whatever headline happened to hijack her brain that afternoon.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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June 21 – July 22 Wandering down conversational tangents will be especially tempting today.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The novel is made of math equations, lengthy jokes, digressions in Yiddish, and a whole lot of language play.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Obviously, the users can also opt for surfing’s rapid digressions due to the overwhelming and disorienting number of choices that they are confronted with when accessing a hypertext.—
Carmen Daniela Maier,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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