as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
the professor's frequent and extended digressions are the stuff of campus legend
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Recent Examples of digression
The main plot, which involves some very old beef between Said and Ilya, is subtly woven and sometimes gets lost in digressions, though Grisebach manages to brings things together by the last act.
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Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2026
It is abridged, so there’s not nearly as many 90-page digressions or pseudoscientific cetology musings.
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Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
14 May 2026
Hunt and his director, Ashley Rodbro, build in some visual variety, whether that means screening one of Hunt’s public access sketches, cringy, or a digression into a lighting design demo, a nod to Hunt’s Illinois State degree in lighting design (and acting).
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Problem solving may also suffer without these low-effort digressions.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2026
It is abridged, so there’s not nearly as many 90-page digressions or pseudoscientific cetology musings.
—
Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
14 May 2026
Hunt and his director, Ashley Rodbro, build in some visual variety, whether that means screening one of Hunt’s public access sketches, cringy, or a digression into a lighting design demo, a nod to Hunt’s Illinois State degree in lighting design (and acting).
—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Problem solving may also suffer without these low-effort digressions.
—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for digression
tangent
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Even a tonally lighter mid-season tangent about two horror host streamers who stumble on an early sighting of the Human Vapor in a music video is charged with precarity and desperation.
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Her words prove true throughout his interview, during which Glover opens up for the first time about his life with Alzheimer's disease, often toggling between unfinished thoughts and poetic personal tangents.
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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