digress
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I digress, though: This is a column about what is popular, not what is right and wrong!
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025
That may be going a bit too far, but I digress.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
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
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
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
Milton never digresses; he never violates harmony of sound or sense; his poems have all their regular movement from quiet beginning through a rising and breaking wave of passion and splendour to quiet close.
From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair
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 audience of 1,600-plus, all primed to cheer the speakers’ adversarial views, found less and less to react to as the panel digressed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Answering a question about her use of color, she digressed into an anecdote about Seurat and Monet: “When Seurat was asked what he thought of Monet, he said one word: ‘Intuition.’
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
"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
But then Will spoils the effect by digressing into a jarring non sequitur:
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
“Look at that beautiful lake,” he said, digressing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
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 seem to be incapable of digressing, even if I want to.”
From The Dominant Dollar by Lester Ralph
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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