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“You are digressing really fast, I’m just saying,” Haley added, laughing off the incident before promising to keep in mind his running-mate suggestion.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2023

Anyhow," I interposed, "we are digressing from our point.

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Yes, we have, and, after the manner of philosophers, we are digressing; I have often observed how ridiculous this habit of theirs makes them when they appear in court.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin

But while we are digressing, a cavalcade of mounted men have left the area in front of the Phillips mansion, and are approaching us upon the road at a full gallop.

From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by Armstrong, William H.

"We are digressing," the senator from New York interrupted.

From The Lever A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana