as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
as an aside, something similar happened to me years ago
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Recent Examples of aside
Dan Goldman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
Set aside 30 minutes each day to talk about external stressors — work challenges, personal frustrations or daily wins.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The book follows Tom’s moral development, guided by three matriarchal fairies—with political and scientific asides—and the whole can be read as an allegory for the moral principles inhering in evolutionary processes.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
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Adverb
An additional $200 million will be dedicated to capital improvements at the Red Hook Houses, and $50 million will be set aside for an affordable housing reserve fund and home ownership assistance.
—Noun
Should the tale of a 600-year-old artist, with its technical asides on the art of the fresco, come before the tale of modern-day teenage angst?
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for aside
Adverb
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However, that fight fell apart in early March, when a hand injury forced Whyte from the card.—
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Beijing watchers were unsurprised when its claim of a cheap breakthrough in artificial intelligence fell apart.—
Noun
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Unfortunately, things go poorly—her mind meanders on tangents, thoughts fail to coalesce, words elude her.—
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Almost miraculously, a circle emerges from countless tangents.—
Adverb
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Four 660-pound M30 rockets, each packing 180,000 tungsten fragments, rained down from as far away as 57 miles.—
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The clip ends with Krypto crying as Superman walks away from him, disappointed in the pup for tearing up his compound (this earned awws from the audience).—
Adverb
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Tesla Takedown, in the U.S. and elsewhere, was organized by a group that included disillusioned owners of the automaker’s vehicles, celebrities such as actor John Cusack and at least one Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas.—
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Those in select states can lock in a $150 bonus (CO, NJ, MI, PA, WV) while users elsewhere can bet college hoops, NBA, MLB and more with a $1,500 first bet offer.—
Adverb
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But simply by floating the idea, and reminding the public that the 2028 election is still a ways off, Trump fueled speculation about his political future that is likely to linger for years to come — long past the time when most second term presidents become lame ducks.—
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Oreo: get 50% off personalized cookies The cookie brand skipped the pranks and decided to give customers 50% off on personalized OreoID cookies ordered Tuesday from the Oreo website.—
Adverb
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The markets have been down, and consumer confidence sliding.—
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Users are reporting that X is down, but people may have an easier time accessing the social media platform owned by Elon Musk on a computer.—
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“Aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aside. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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