tangentialin a sentence
tangential as in: tangential to our discussion
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In the middle of explaining the project, she went off on a tangent about her vacation plans.tangent = off-topic change
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We didn't learn a lot, but her tangential remarks were entertaining.tangential = off-topic
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Her stories were full of tangents that made them entertaining but hard to follow.tangents = off-topic digressions
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It is difficult to keep her from going off on a tangent.tangent = off-topic change
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An outline helps a speaker avoid leaving things out and going off on tangents.tangents = off-topic changes
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It is called "tangential velocity" because the object whose velocity is being measured is always tangent to the circle.†
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There's only the slightest tangent with the Escher's work from which it gets its title.†
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Alertness to tangential aspects of problems can help scientists to postulate significance that otherwise would be missed.†
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She smoked and talked and ate for an hour without stopping, and I scribbled in my notebook as the muddy waters of tangents and cosines began to clarify.† (source)
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Tangentially† (source)
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Rod considered wriggling around behind the gate, knowing that the tangency was one-sided and that he would be able to see through the locus from the other side, see anyone who came out without himself being seen.† (source)
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"That's what they are," Tom tangented off, "deep blue—a bit of color would spoil them, make them exotic.† (source)
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There the text went off on a tangent about how Bram Stoker had actually been... (source)tangent = a different subject from the main thing being discussed before and after the different subject discussion (although it is a different subject, it does touch upon or connect to the main subject in some way)
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He could feel them in his hands again while overhead the gulls flew tangents.† (source)
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She was tangential with her topics, and her hands gesticulated wildly, flying up with a nervousness that wasn't like her at all.† (source)
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Even, like, tangentially.† (source)
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It wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down again between fringes of beehung clover, and then cut sidewise across a meadow.
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tangent = in a non-direct way
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