as in rambling
passing from one topic to another
the professor's digressionary style is appealing to some students and completely off-putting to others
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Adjective
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In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2024 -
His statement came a day after the release of the Netflix series, which takes viewers back to the morning after Christmas 28 years ago, when JonBenét’s mother called 911 to report finding a rambling ransom note and her daughter missing.—
Elizabeth Chuck,
NBC News,
3 Dec. 2024
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The old man who, with his grandson, kept that wandering tradition alive that left many of the Aiel ready to abandon the path laid out for them.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
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The album unfolds like the journal of a wandering young heart who rambles from town to town, from feeling to feeling, but without feeling connected anywhere.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Iranians reportedly agreed to engage in indirect talks with the U.S., through mediators in Oman.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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However, one method is direct and the other is indirect.—
Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Digressionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressionary. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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