tangential

Example Sentences

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Several of the chapters, about particle accelerators and fusion reactors, take readers on cursory tours of facilities that have at best a tangential connection to space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The MP idea feels a little more tangential than even EU defense stocks.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

But in other circumstances, the law became a powerful cudgel wielded to influence concerns that at best had a tangential relationship to the environment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

There's an organization called Youth for Wallace, a tangential part of the campaign, it's organized more or less separately, and after Wallace's defeat it becomes an organization called the National Youth Alliance.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

Something visceral and less tangential than, say, statistics, laws, police enforcement, or television commercials: The issue had to be made personal.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel