tangential

Example Sentences

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One day ahead of Game 3, James masterfully avoided directly responding to Brooks or to answering vaguely tangential questions about the pesky defender before closing the books on his media session on his own terms.

From Los Angeles Times

Too often, the resources and energy it takes to create community are considered an unnecessary luxury tangential or even distracting to the work at hand.

From Seattle Times

When the sun rises or sets, its position moves tangential to the ground, and the pathway from the sun to the ground is lengthened.

From Washington Post

Thus they give oxygen to the argument that a politically motivated prosecutor was out fishing for charges, no matter how obscure, technical or tangential.

From Los Angeles Times

He veers out of his way to raise, sympathetically, the tangential question of “fetal personhood” — the argument that the Constitution protects fetal life from the moment of conception and therefore precludes states from allowing abortion.

From Washington Post