tangent
adjective
in immediate physical contact; touching.
tangents
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pluralof tangent.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We’ll come back to it, but first, a few tangents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
The tangents, the idiosyncrasies of the hosts and the glimpses of private life leave listeners feeling connected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
In Ireland, the stories are almost never simple, and tend to involve seemingly irrelevant tangents and extended detours into the past.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024
A dilettante prone to colorful tangents, he sees Molly as an object of fascination and a personal cause.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
And my oldest students were swept away into the mysteries of sine, cosine, and tangents.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
