digress
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“The Madman’s Guide” has no chapter headings but many signposts such as “to digress further” and “at last to return to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
I digress, though: This is a column about what is popular, not what is right and wrong!
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025
But I digress . . . and I do not want to leave you without these last words.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Premium subscriptions are just a click away if you’re feeling froggy, but we digress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Since a Suggestion from the Master is a Command not unlike Holy Writ, I shall digress and comply at the same Time.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
The Australian-American singer and songwriter Jamie O’Neal digresses from the program just a bit—delivering Reba McEntire’s “Tammy Wynette Kind of Pain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
He digresses to tell me the story, however, and it’s literally longer than this entire article’s word count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
To place this rich local drama in historical context, Haygood occasionally digresses into summaries of landmark stories that in one way or another set the stage for it, from the Plessy v.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2018
In one letter, he digresses to say he took a break from writing to eat a quart of ice cream.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2018
The Apostle digresses a little from his immediate theme.
From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Theodore Graebner
And during a meeting in early January with oil and gas executives that was supposed to be about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry, Trump apparently digressed yet again into talking about the ballroom.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
The conversation digressed, as it often does among this group, to food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
He protested, quibbled, digressed or simply could not recall.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
"I am not a Bravo executive, so I don’t think I can speak to this on," she digressed.
From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021
But let us return to the point we digressed from.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Elliptical, digressing, self-interrupting, parenthesizing, Herzen wrote as he spoke, in a torrent of ideas, reminiscences, and literary and historical allusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But when I read it, I realized all the things I thought were my flaws — the digressing, the self-contradiction — in Bernhard that was the writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
“I’m not comfortable with Goofy Uncle Joe,” Biden said about his trademark casual demeanor, before digressing about the lack of “inherent power in being Vice President.”
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2016
Though he surrenders to creative impotence, Orme never stops thinking, digressing, wondering.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
We are, however, digressing, but must add one further remark.
From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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