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
Kasturi Pananjady, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
The Brighter Days Ahead songs have underlined the overall project’s tone and purpose — so, chart performance aside, the deluxe edition has been an unequivocal success.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Apr. 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
South Carolina, for example, sets aside up to $50,000 to help communities in that state fluoridate.
—Kasturi Pananjady, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
The Brighter Days Ahead songs have underlined the overall project’s tone and purpose — so, chart performance aside, the deluxe edition has been an unequivocal success.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
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?
—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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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.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Hit games like Halo gave it unique appeal, and the idea to let gamers play together over the internet on Xbox Live set the gaming system apart.—
Monica Nickelsburg,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Unfortunately, things go poorly—her mind meanders on tangents, thoughts fail to coalesce, words elude her.—
Jessica Riskin,
The New York Review of Books,
3 Apr. 2025
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Almost miraculously, a circle emerges from countless tangents.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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And one of the things Kelce has been doing with his time away from the spotlight?—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
2 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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While Leeds were on the wrong end of officiating errors in Middlesbrough, Burnley and Sheffield United were dropping points elsewhere in the country.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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More have died outside of just Kentucky, and additional photos show flooding damages elsewhere in the Midwest.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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There were a lot of transportation logistics, but then Bing and Bev and Bill were going off, and Naomi was being taken home.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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With few options left, Adam begins considering and concocting ways to enact vengeance, but Basem, having been down that rageful path, advises him otherwise.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Imports during the final six months of 2025 are now expected to be down at least 20 percent year over year, Hackett Associates founder Ben Hackett said.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aside. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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