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a departure from the subject under consideration
- in the middle of her description of her dog's symptoms, she went off on a tangent about its cute behavior
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adjectiveSynonyms & Antonyms of tangent (Entry 2 of 2)
as in tangential, peripheral
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“Tangent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tangent. Accessed 18 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of tangent was in 1594
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