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tangent
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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 Synonyms of tangent aside, digression, divagation, excursion Words Related to tangent excursus, parenthesis; rambling; circuitousness, circularity, circumlocution, diffuseness, prolixity, verbosity, windiness, wordiness
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