tangent
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But as any viewer of his HBO series, “How to With John Wilson,” will know, he is a master, probably unequaled, of the art of the tangent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
After the reflecting pool tangent, Trump signed executive orders on US customs and protections for civil servants.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Later on, there’s a significant tangent into grainy video, a music performance that deserves to be left a surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
"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
They weren’t really stories at all, just one tangent after another.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
His segments include references to scandals from the Clinton era, tangents about the workings of the American Bar Association, and detailed breakdowns of the electoral politics of individual states.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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
Our conversation goes on many tangents — the sitcom “Designing Women,” the Oscar race, the musical “Wicked.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
She smoked and talked and ate for an hour without stopping, and I scribbled in my notebook as the muddy waters of tangents and cosines began to clarify.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
Vocabulary lists containing tangent
Common Senses: Tact, Tang ("Touch")
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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