tangential
Example Sentences
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Other tangential ways to play the issue are with European defense stocks or critical minerals companies.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
The story gets bogged down in tangential matters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Its audience gobbled up not just on-air content, but the tangential albums, video games, concert tickets and apparel, helping bring in billions of dollars in merchandise revenue.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2024
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
The Coriolis effect happens because of the difference between these two tangential velocities.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Vocabulary lists containing tangential
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Common Senses: Tact, Tang ("Touch")
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "T"
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