digress
Example Sentences
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If we really want to talk about moral failings, perhaps we should ask predatory lenders to join the chat—but I digress.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024
Many highly esteemed novels contain stretches that stumble, lumber and digress, with such “fat” either pardoned in the larger context of the meal or praised as authorial swagger.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
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
And Small Islanders eager to say their ancestry is “mixed”? But we must not digress.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing digress
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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Grade 11, List 1
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