tangent

Example Sentences

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At the same time, it was telling that a common reaction to Landry’s tangent was:

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

"Some of them will run straight, some of them will not start at all, some of them will go off on a tangent or bite each other," she explained.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

Maher tried to ask a follow-up after Conway went on a tangent about Hillary Clinton, whose presidential campaign ended almost eight years ago, before being interrupted.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

Each word might spring the narrator into a new scene or tangent — or serve as a barb to hang her up for a page or paragraph.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

Within a few years he developed a systematic method of solving the tangent problem; he could figure out the tangent to any smooth curve at any point.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife