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
There's no explicit in-game reward for almost all of these random digressions, and your fellow cut-scene hikers will frequently explicitly warn you that there's no point in climbing some structure or another.
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ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
His essays — an array of digressions on meme culture, monetary theory and markets — remain widely read in crypto circles.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
This Pearl Jam/jizz/peyote digression occurs after an opening Nineties trivia question about grunge frontmen.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
That is why the film is not just telling a story in a totally straightforward way, but makes these kinds of little cinematic digressions.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
His essays — an array of digressions on meme culture, monetary theory and markets — remain widely read in crypto circles.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
This Pearl Jam/jizz/peyote digression occurs after an opening Nineties trivia question about grunge frontmen.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
That is why the film is not just telling a story in a totally straightforward way, but makes these kinds of little cinematic digressions.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for digression
tangent
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This tangent line is called the Lie algebra.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Dec. 2025
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While O’Farrell spends story real estate on imagining how the plague germs traveled the Mediterranean into Warwickshire and Zhao smartly cuts that tangent, maybe the biggest omission is one O’Farrell also doesn’t directly show in the novel either.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Nov. 2025
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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