digress

If David Nihill was a philosopher, his credo might be “I digress, therefore I am.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

I digress, though: This is a column about what is popular, not what is right and wrong!

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025

Not as good the next day when the 49ers got Young, a better player, for only a third-rounder, but we digress.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

I’m sure there’s no strategic advantage to examining a superior changeling ship’s technology when many of them have taken over Starfleet, but we digress.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

Okay, that last one wasn’t cool, but I digress.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Its narrative offers few character sketches, jumps around in time and digresses into subjects that distract more than they enlighten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

He digresses to tell me the story, however, and it’s literally longer than this entire article’s word count.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

To that end, the show, like “A Chorus Line,” digresses into the contestants’ personal lives.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

At almost every dramatic moment, Sampson digresses, filling in the picture with background information, some of it fascinating, some annoying.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2018

The Apostle digresses a little from his immediate theme.

From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Theodore Graebner

And during a meeting in early January with oil and gas executives that was supposed to be about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry, Trump apparently digressed yet again into talking about the ballroom.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

"I am not a Bravo executive, so I don’t think I can speak to this on," she digressed.

From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021

“I digressed and was free,” Faith says, offering the perfect motto for her breathless, bravura performance.

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

A year later, with four games remaining, the Rams’ offense is basically in the same spot — but with a running game that has digressed from 2015.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2016

But let us return to the point we digressed from.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

“Look at that beautiful lake,” he said, digressing.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

“You are digressing really fast, I’m just saying,” Haley added, laughing off the incident before promising to keep in mind his running-mate suggestion.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023

But when I read it, I realized all the things I thought were my flaws — the digressing, the self-contradiction — in Bernhard that was the writing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

“The naira is digressing and we are trying to keep the value of the art,” he said, calling crypto “the currency where people don’t think that I am paying too much or too less”.

From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2021

But this is digressing: the question is, may not the moral effect of painting be still counted on, if the painter be himself imbued with the right spirit?

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson