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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
digress .
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Examples
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Near the end of the book, Donkin digresses down a science-fiction path, offering a bizarre vision of a quasi-utopian future in which everyone is connected through a ubiquitous "Wall."
'Future of Work' predicts jobs and home life will merge more 2010
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Breslin digresses, and these stories are priceless.
Jesse Kornbluth: Jimmy Breslin's 143-page Biography Of Branch Rickey Is Much More Than A Great Book About Baseball Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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Side story: My family often digresses about how when they tried to hug me when I was younger, I would punch them.
Dirty. « 2009
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I can sift through thick language and endure a plot that digresses and meanders as long as I feel something for the characters.
SBS Interview Series: Nick Lyle (“One Last Look”) « Survival By Storytelling Magazine 2010
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That's the starting point of Stephen Bloom's controversial article in The Atlantic, in which the one-time city slicker turned University of Iowa journalism professor digresses into a portrait of shotgun-wielding, Jesus-crazed, demolition derby-loving hicks who are too dim-witted to step into the 21st century.
B.A. Morelli: As Caucus Day Approaches, a Debate Over Us Iowa Hicks B.A. Morelli 2011
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This digresses from your point a bit, but I do think the best way to be supportive of both writers and readers is to be honest about how you felt about a book and why.
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"I'm Hip" has been slightly updated—now the familiar name-dropping line is "Jamie Cullum knows my friend"—and it digresses into a Jerome Kern rewrite called "I Won't Scat," but the famous quote from Charlie Parker's "Bird of Paradise" is still in place.
Getting Down to Brass Tacks Will Friedwald 2011
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As we the people have so painfully come to expect, spin does not clarify; at best, it digresses, at worst, it obfuscates.
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I confess that my use of "pawn" digresses from the author's by Stewart Wechsler on Tuesday, Jan 5, 2010 at 11: 22: 42 PM
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is Another Pawn in the Terror War 2010
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She digresses on Dr. John Dee, the great scholar and mathematician, whose views on magic may have influenced the playwright; on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605; and on the riot in New York in 1849, when thousands of angry fans of an American Shakespearean actor protested outside the theater where his British rival was performing.
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