as in tangents
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 digressions
But in the small areas of freedom McAvoy allows himself outside the main thrust of the familiar rags-to-riches-to-regret arc there are sharp little digressions and darker shadowy corners that suggest there’s more to the film, and to McAvoy as a filmmaker, than initially meets the eye.
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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
Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for digressions
tangents
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Like his film Bacurau, The Secret Agent bends back on its own genre, indulging in tangents and side characters and tonal shifts throughout.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Digressions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressions. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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