Thesaurus results for DIGRESSES

digresses

verb

present tense third-person singular of digress

as in wanders

to speak or write about something that is different from the main subject being discussed He digressed so often that it was hard to follow what he was saying. If I can digress for a moment, I'd like to briefly mention her earlier films.

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Recent Examples of digresses The two-hour conversation quickly digresses from the record and encompasses topics like fatherhood, politics, the dangers of television advertising, and just about anything else that flits through John and Yoko’s minds. —

Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 15 May 2026 Semple’s writing is warm and absurdly funny but also occasionally devastating—as when, roughly midway through the book, Adora digresses into recalling her experiences writing for a comedy show in the 1990s. —

The Atlantic, 14 May 2026

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The film is at its best early on, as Clark wanders through a physical environment that, to his mind and ours, has no obvious origin and no clear reason to exist.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Nova Scotia might not be where your mind wanders when thinking of a stereotypical surf scene—but the raw coastline and Atlantic swells do actually make for some pretty great surfing when the weather is participating.

— Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026