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
The Story of the Kit Cat Club, Dick Estcourt, and Jacob Tonson, is a mere Digression; and nothing more to the Purpose, than that we may imagine it came uppermost.
From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.
Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of Amsterdam.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Smith, Adam
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