asides

plural of aside
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 transcripts and asides and footnotes; references and internet memes. — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 With Apatow at the helm, the chat took some comical turns, as might be expected, and also some unusually revealing ones, as Apatow getting McCartney to loosen up provided some real personal asides as well as screwball dialogue. — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026 The family’s alienation and the father’s divorce from the narrator’s mother are revealed through asides. — Anna Mebel, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2026 To that end, Guadagnino occasionally makes asides to the audience, at one point trying to explain to younger viewers what the French New Wave and Cahiers du Cinéma were. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026 The pacing feels off throughout much of the film, with comic and contemplative asides gumming up the central caper. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026 What makes this all the more unfortunate is that most of these excited personal asides come right under his listing of the figures for infections and deaths. — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026 There are asides about how the helmet communication receivers don’t always work. — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Thomson’s own authoritative delivery of his opinions has an air of proclamation, but is leavened by his characteristic twinkly asides and curious pivots. — Nicolas Rapold, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for asides
Noun
  • Its loose structure allows for a wealth of tangents, touching on everything from whether HBO shows have the right amount of nudity to the hosts’ personal lives.
    — Daniel Strauss, Vanity Fair, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In contrast to this, in regions dominated by shock waves, magnetic fields are orientated at tangents.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • The result is a strange, bewitching experiment in autobiography, in which there are no friendships or love affairs, just exquisite digressions on life-changing texts.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • But these digressions were great theatre, with Cohn as the ringmaster.
    — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Asides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asides. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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