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  • But I digress.  (source)
  • But this is what is called a digression, and now I am going to go back to the fact that it was a Good Day.  (source)
    digression = instance of getting off the main topic
  • But I digress.  (source)
    digress = wander from the main topic
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  • Keep your boat-crew leaders and your class leaders informed of any digression from the normal.  (source)
    digression = change (wandering)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
  • But I digress.  (source)
    digress = wander from the main topic
  • All these digressions, they just screw up your story's sound.  (source)
    digressions = wanderings from the main storyline
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
  • I have digressed.  (source)
    digressed = wandered away from the main topic
  • But I am digressing.  (source)
    digressing = wandering off topic
  • When someone introduces a topic (the grammar of literature), then digresses to show other topics (language, art, music, dog training—it doesn't matter what examples; as soon as you see a couple of them, you recognize the pattern), you know he's coming back with an application of those examples to the main topic...  (source)
    digresses = wanders away from the main topic
  • It would be thrown aside as carelessly, whenever he should choose to earn his bread by some other equally digressive means.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • He flips forward to the chapter on series, an odd digression from the mostly tangible issues of calculus dealing with force or velocity or the trajectory of objects as they bump and bounce through the world.  (source)
    digression = a wandering from a direct or straight course
  • But--I digress,  (source)
    digress = wander off topic
  • Chairman said that there had been many irrelevancies yesterday and matters discussed best left undiscussed--and that he would permit no digressions today.  (source)
    digressions = wanderings off topic
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