digress

There are less rules outside, fewer boundaries: coffee dates prolong, walks meander, thoughts digress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

That may be going a bit too far, but I digress.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024

But I digress — this is supposed to be a positive column.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 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

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

At this point Hazlitt digresses to reprove the age for its affectation of superiority over other ages and the passage, not being relevant, has been omitted. less than smallest dwarfs.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

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 audience of 1,600-plus, all primed to cheer the speakers’ adversarial views, found less and less to react to as the panel digressed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Answering a question about her use of color, she digressed into an anecdote about Seurat and Monet: “When Seurat was asked what he thought of Monet, he said one word: ‘Intuition.’

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

"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

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

“I know people want the branches of government to work together, rather than digressing into politics.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017

“I’m not comfortable with Goofy Uncle Joe,” Biden said about his trademark casual demeanor, before digressing about the lack of “inherent power in being Vice President.”

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2016

But all this is digressing most fearfully from the nursery of young pointers and setters.

From The Dog by Dinks