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digress from (something)

To begin to discuss something other than the current topic or issue. You totally digress from your argument in this paragraph, so cut it from your paper.
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digress from something

[for a speaker or writer] to stray from the subject. I am going to digress from my prepared text. You will pardon me if I digress from my point a little.
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The IMF's comments show that it is digressing from its earlier prediction that the bank would change its interest rates in 2017 or 2018.
IMF says difficult to predict when Japan's central bank will change interest rates
Rowe says that although these plugs were supposed to boost tourism, it actually declined during this period, in a clip from Anthony Mann's 1952 Western, Bend of the River, Jimmy Stewart and Arthur Kennedy look totally befuddled about digressing from the point of their dialogue to take note of a "bird from Canada" flying around their campsite.
O Canadian film, we stand on guard for thee: Peter Rowe's Popcorn with Maple Syrup and Jill Sharpe's Weird Sex and Snowshoes
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