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touching the current issue, but with minor or no relevance
- Though that halfbaked Lyons ran off at a tangent in his impetuosity to get left.Episode 16 — Eumaeus (67% in)
- What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?Episode 17 — Ithaca (52% in)
There are no more uses of "tangential" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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