tangent

Example Sentences

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Reflecting that quirky organization, the book ends on tangent rather than a big wrap-up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

This is a bit of a tangent, but go with me for a second.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2025

"Some of them will run straight, some of them will not start at all, some of them will go off on a tangent or bite each other," she explained.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

Maher tried to ask a follow-up after Conway went on a tangent about Hillary Clinton, whose presidential campaign ended almost eight years ago, before being interrupted.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

To figure out the volume of a barrel or the area under a parabola, mathematicians added infinite zeros together; to find out the tangent of a curve, they divided zero by itself.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife