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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Refine your key points to be clear and concise—no rambling monologues.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025 -
In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Rebecca Solnit Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty-five books on feminism, western and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe.—
Rebecca Solnit
May 29,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2025
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Starting during that period and continuing over the decades, Andersen very much lived the life of the wandering, nomadic poet-writer.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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All this becomes a bit discursive, and frankly, dull — almost like a coastal Carlos Saura family portrait without the politics and without the clean lines and character definition to make the sprawl of relatives especially interesting.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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And it’s also arrived at a particular moment, in a particular discursive world, in which opinions are strong, objections are instant, and differences are emphasized.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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In recent years, Iran has refused to engage in direct discussions with U.S. officials about its nuclear program and instead has insisted on indirect talks, with each government relaying messages through intermediaries.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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The latest indirect talks between Iran and the U.S., set for last Sunday, were canceled.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 June 2025
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“Excursive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excursive. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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