verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before we do that, I'd like to digress for a minute and say a word or two about the new books.
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During the lecture, Miller often digressed to give the history behind each theory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Having digressed on our way around the village, all that is left is the marsh and the woods.
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Having digressed so far, I can not resist going a little further.
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However space does not permit me to digress into this topic.
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I am digressing, but with the purpose of emphasising the power of the pencil.
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Perhaps this is the place to digress a little and talk about the taking of facts from other writers' books.
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Should they digress they would be asked to find other accommodation forthwith.
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Stewart digresses to fill every cranny in her heroine's past.
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That is why we have digressed.