digress
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“The Madman’s Guide” has no chapter headings but many signposts such as “to digress further” and “at last to return to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
I digress, though: This is a column about what is popular, not what is right and wrong!
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025
But I digress . . . and I do not want to leave you without these last words.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Premium subscriptions are just a click away if you’re feeling froggy, but we digress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
Every few pages of his “crime story,” Sjon digresses to a new tale with new players, like a postrider burning through horses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
It idles, it digresses, it repeats, it makes no progress.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
Such immediate assistance for the pursuit and development of this inquiry is presented in two remarkable instances, where Nature digresses from her usual course, and which are not of rare occurrence. 1st.
From On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence by John Haslam
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
The conversation digressed, as it often does among this group, to food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
He protested, quibbled, digressed or simply could not recall.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
"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
But let us return to the point we digressed from.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Elliptical, digressing, self-interrupting, parenthesizing, Herzen wrote as he spoke, in a torrent of ideas, reminiscences, and literary and historical allusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But then Will spoils the effect by digressing into a jarring non sequitur:
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
“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
This was a comfortable spot for him, though he seemed, in a faded red T-shirt with a few holes in the torso, not entirely comfortable there, apologizing often for rambling, pausing, digressing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
"What an interesting lot we women must be in your eyes," broke in Bessie, digressing from the subject.
From When Dreams Come True by William Merritt Berger
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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