tangential

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Other tangential ways to play the issue are with European defense stocks or critical minerals companies.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

The story gets bogged down in tangential matters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But in other circumstances, the law became a powerful cudgel wielded to influence concerns that at best had a tangential relationship to the environment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

There's an organization called Youth for Wallace, a tangential part of the campaign, it's organized more or less separately, and after Wallace's defeat it becomes an organization called the National Youth Alliance.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

The speed that you don’t realize you are doing is your tangential velocity.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd