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
Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
Set aside time to have fun and enjoy your summer when Venus conjoins Jupiter in Cancer on August 12.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 28 July 2025
John Werner, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Wolodarsky’s voice has such a wallflower quality to it, apt for Kylie, whose asides are barely acknowledged half the time.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
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Noun
Setting sci-fi aspirations aside, the achievement could help physicists solve the mystery of why the universe is dominated by matter and not antimatter—in other words, why the universe around us exists at all.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
Set aside time to have fun and enjoy your summer when Venus conjoins Jupiter in Cancer on August 12.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 28 July 2025
Adverb
As an aside, what few parties have tried is building a hyper-local newsroom on a shoestring budget, tying it to a mobile phone app, and charging subscribers very low prices for getting all the tea about what’s happening in their neighborhoods.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Wolodarsky’s voice has such a wallflower quality to it, apt for Kylie, whose asides are barely acknowledged half the time.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aside
Noun
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Information, as a result, becomes abstracted into tangents.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2025
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For nearly an hour, Trump rambled about multiple topics his administration has tackled so far, ranging from tariffs to transgender people in sports while veering into tangents about his previous legal battles and first administration.—
Lalee Ibssa,
ABC News,
14 July 2025
Adverb
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One of the things that sets them apart is their unique inspiration.—
Ronny Maye,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Brammall will star as police detective Ian Hunt, whose life fell apart ten years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
21 July 2025
Adverb
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Khan was brushing her teeth in the video while standing a few steps away from the camera.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Which is: Longtime couple Millie (Brie) and Tim (Franco) are abandoning their city life to settle in a small town, isolating them from a shared community and ripping Tim away from his faltering music career.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
31 July 2025
Adverb
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There was some hope that business would increase once many residents returned to the area who might live elsewhere in cold weather months.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Endrick could also be headed for a Real Madrid exit Similarly having his trajectory to regular minutes complicated by Garcia, Endrick could also be headed for a Real Madrid exit - though probably only on loan, temporarily, to gain experience elsewhere.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
Adverb
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Plus, these Keds kicks are 38 percent off and seem a little sturdier for fall.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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The Army did acknowledge that Black Hawk altimeters may be more than 100 feet off before adding that their pilots aim to maintain altitude within 100 feet of a limit.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
Adverb
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Here, the odds of the postseason dropped a full three percentage points, to 95.9% (though that’s with a 92.5% chance of a division title and a 52.4% chance of a bye, down from 73.7% last week).—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
29 July 2025
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That percentage is also very similar to 2023 and down slightly from the 100.1% of mid-2022, reflecting the red-hot market of 2020-mid-2022 in which buyers were fiercely competing for homes, often asking over asking price.—
Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
29 July 2025
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“Aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aside. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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