tangent
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After the reflecting pool tangent, Trump signed executive orders on US customs and protections for civil servants.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
At the same time, it was telling that a common reaction to Landry’s tangent was:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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
I had a phone call with an FBI agent and the U.S. attorney in San Diego on a tangent for this case.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2024
The misery began when I moved beyond the Pythagorean theorem to sine, cosine and tangent.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
They go on tangents about Palmer introducing Whitehall to the 1997 film “Soul Food,” which Whitehall proceeded to reference on set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
The tangents, the idiosyncrasies of the hosts and the glimpses of private life leave listeners feeling connected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
They are deployed for pauses and interruptions in speech; they precede bursts of exposition, neat summings-up and lengthy tangents.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
A dilettante prone to colorful tangents, he sees Molly as an object of fascination and a personal cause.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
Zero and infinity made the simple acts of taking tangents and finding areas appear to be self-contradictory.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing tangent
Common Senses: Tact, Tang ("Touch")
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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Geometry - High School
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