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digress
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digress verb aberrare, alter course, be diffuse, branch out, change direction, depart, detour, deviate, divaricate, diverge, divert, drift, expatiate, fly off at a tangent, go astray, meander, ramble, rove, shift, sidestep, sidetrack, skirt, stray, swerve, turn, veer, wander
See also: depart, detour, deviate, differ, vary


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She digresses, adds sidebars and (sometimes awkwardly placed) full-page asides, and inserts herself into the narrative as she becomes a partner in a freewheeling inquiry with the reader.
Although the book begins with a discussion of genetics and the hygiene hypothesis, it quickly digresses into issues less relevant to the main point of the book, such as new diagnostic tests.
and a killer rabbit, the show digresses into parodying other musicals.
 
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