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  • noun Plural form of divagation.

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Examples

  • Both illustrate this dilemma by hilariously interrupting the narrative in progress through seemingly endless diversions and divagations.

    January 2010 2010

  • But "West of Here" is so sprightly and enthusiastic that you don't mind its divagations.

    First the Settlers, Then the Settled Sam Sacks 2011

  • Both illustrate this dilemma by hilariously interrupting the narrative in progress through seemingly endless diversions and divagations.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • Both illustrate this dilemma by hilariously interrupting the narrative in progress through seemingly endless diversions and divagations.

    Performing Its Own Self 2010

  • I have something in common with shopping malls: I always would be honored to be the subject of Allen Bramhall's divagations.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • I have something in common with shopping malls: I always would be honored to be the subject of Allen Bramhall's divagations.

    THIS CORK BOBS! 2010

  • What Akbar longs for is the exotic West: which comes to him in the guise of the yellow-haired Mogor dell'Amore with a tale to tell so tangled ( "This was his way: to move toward his goal indirectly, with many detours and divagations") that it will require hundreds of pages of Rushdie's challenging prose.

    In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008

  • Howell's divagations provide an interesting smorgasbord when it comes to food for thought.

    Ms. Monroe's Grocery Lists (but Not a Lot Concerning Lips Her Lips Have Kissed) Judith Fitzgerald 2008

  • Her brother lent himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather eccentric wanderings.

    The Ball at Sceaux 2007

  • Her brother lent himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather eccentric wanderings.

    The Ball at Sceaux 2007

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