digression

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Digression: Benford’s eponymous credit is an instance of Stigler’s law, which contends that scientific discoveries are never named after their original discoverer.

From Scientific American • May 8, 2023

Digression time, and briefly, but 2014’s box office hit a 20-year low.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2015

Digression and detour are the norm in Afterlives; Dickey speaks not for, but with, the saints.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2012

But this I am sure is a Digression in me, whatever it was in the Author of the Memoirs.

From Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately Published One called, A Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the Memoirs of Christendom, And the Other, An Answer to that Letter. by Anonymous

But to return from this Digression, to speak of the rest of these Islands.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen