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A departure from the main subject or line of thought.

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digression

A brief digression about the author's childhood interrupted the argument.
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For the next reading, Leon prepared a short introduction to elucidate the relationship between two narrators. He used the colloquial phrase 'keep an eye on the dates' because the event was informal. A rehearsal revealed one distracting digression about how he bought his notebook. The story amused his friends, but it did not help listeners understand the chapter.
From Saying What Matters.
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