digress

If David Nihill was a philosopher, his credo might be “I digress, therefore I am.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

I digress, though: This is a column about what is popular, not what is right and wrong!

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025

Not as good the next day when the 49ers got Young, a better player, for only a third-rounder, but we digress.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

I’m sure there’s no strategic advantage to examining a superior changeling ship’s technology when many of them have taken over Starfleet, but we digress.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 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

Its narrative offers few character sketches, jumps around in time and digresses into subjects that distract more than they enlighten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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

She pads and digresses; what could be a sentence becomes a paragraph.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022

Where Sterne’s “Tristram” digresses to prevent plot from happening, “CoDex 1962” sows plot upon plot, in the tradition of epics and sagas.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018

He then digresses into an apostrophe, O dignity, how dost thou impose upon the world! then returning to himself, Blood, says he, thou art but blood, however concealed with appearances and decorations.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

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

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

Then he digressed, noting, “I know a lot about West Point…. Trust me, I’m like a smart person.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2017

But let us return to the point we digressed from.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

This was a comfortable spot for him, though he seemed, in a faded red T-shirt with a few holes in the torso, not entirely comfortable there, apologizing often for rambling, pausing, digressing.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

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

“The naira is digressing and we are trying to keep the value of the art,” he said, calling crypto “the currency where people don’t think that I am paying too much or too less”.

From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2021

“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

But I am digressing, and the mountain top and the grave are before me, and I am in the forest on my way thither.

From Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage by Laura Stubbs