as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
the professor's frequent and extended digressions are the stuff of campus legend
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Recent Examples of digression
The duo soon reveal their exceptional digressions from type.
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Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Some might even ask if the demand for flat prices is an implicit acknowledgement of the error, but that’s a digression.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
But that’s a digression, and one imaging rationality about a tax code that screams irrationality.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
In conversation, Lee is grizzled and gregarious, quick to cackle, and prone to starry-eyed digressions about music’s overwhelming power and his partner’s formidable songwriting chops.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 1 May 2025
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Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Some might even ask if the demand for flat prices is an implicit acknowledgement of the error, but that’s a digression.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
But that’s a digression, and one imaging rationality about a tax code that screams irrationality.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
In conversation, Lee is grizzled and gregarious, quick to cackle, and prone to starry-eyed digressions about music’s overwhelming power and his partner’s formidable songwriting chops.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for digression
tangent
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Sirianni calls them with specific questions but winds up relishing in their tangents.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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Trump then went on an extended tangent about the 2016 election and his claims that there was wrongdoing by Obama White House officials.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
22 July 2025
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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