as in rambling
passing from one topic to another
an excursive story line that some readers of Melville's novel find very rewarding
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Adjective
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The book displays a gift for confident, if rambling, storytelling, and the details pile up convincingly.—
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Turan lives in a co-op called Base Camp, a rambling four-story Victorian that houses 14 other tech workers who spend their days at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google’s DeepMind.—
Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Their voices caress each other as much as their wandering fingers do as two of country music’s best collaborators each add another blockbuster duet to their repertoire.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
13 Mar. 2026
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Keiji is a wandering chicken in Japan seeking revenge against demons for the murder of his sister.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
13 Mar. 2026
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Real Man Adventures isn’t broken up into chapter-length sections of narrative, but rather brief, discursive essays.—
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Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
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While forming a global network of thinkers, the IPS has developed over the past five years to critically examine the material, discursive, and aesthetic scope of everything that might fall under the heading of postnatural.—
Catherine Taft,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Less pervasively, less realistically, but free indirect discourse appears frequently enough in Cecilia to radically undermine such a claim.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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But the indirect benefits are equally significant.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Excursive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excursive. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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