noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
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As for going off at tangents , my dear, I do it myself, hormone balance not withstanding.
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Maria kept going off on tangents .
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Loretta's mind went off at a tangent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, tangents are extremely valuable for your writing.
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All along the way, short tangents beckoned.
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As for going off at tangents, my dear, I do it myself, hormone balance not withstanding.
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Never quite abstract, never entirely candid, always at a tangent to the world, Hodgkin is a strangely opaque painter.
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Within the box it is possible to describe slopes and turns as numerical ratios, as tangents.