tangent
Example Sentences
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At the same time, it was telling that a common reaction to Landry’s tangent was:
The tangents, the idiosyncrasies of the hosts and the glimpses of private life leave listeners feeling connected.
They are deployed for pauses and interruptions in speech; they precede bursts of exposition, neat summings-up and lengthy tangents.
From Salon
"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
I didn’t have the good sense to note the context of my favorite opening tangents, or what day a particularly goofy segment aired.
From Salon
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