Thesaurus results for DIGRESSING

digressing

verb

present participle of digress

as in wandering

to speak or write about something that is different from the main subject being discussed He digressed so often that it was hard to follow what he was saying. If I can digress for a moment, I'd like to briefly mention her earlier films.

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It is said that Hannah’s ghost is fond of wandering Spring Hill Road.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026
This formation process also means that brown dwarfs are cosmic loners, wandering the darkness of space alone, bereft of the light of a parent star.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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The complication shows the moon phases for both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, with a 135-tooth driving wheel that drastically enhances accuracy, deviating by just one day every 122 years.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2026
But maybe a line between North and South Carolina, between Tennessee and Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi then deviating south to divide Louisiana and Arkansas.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026

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Telhou uses primal shouts to keep the herd together, while Saâdia uses a slingshot contraption to skillfully throw stones at straying goats.

— Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026
But the story straying from the typical clichés made the role stand out, Marsh says.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

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