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tangentially
[ tan-jen-shuh-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that barely touches or involves someone or something:
The subject’s tempestuous first marriage is only tangentially dealt with in the biography.
- in a way that is only slightly related or relevant:
The novel dedicates a huge amount of space to characters and events that are, at most, tangentially connected to the main plot.
- in a divergent or digressive way:
Whether or not this is easier, as I have tangentially mentioned, is in fact a difficult question.
Other yvlog Forms
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tangentially1
Example Sentences
In these bumpers, the cast of a “Housewives” show line up next to one another and hold up an object that tangentially relates to whatever city the cast lives in.
I think the show tangentially touches on that little bit.
Haynes relies on photographs, clips from tangentially relevant ephemeral films and soundless remnants shot by mentor/facilitator Andy Warhol, a strategy that can be distracting and rewarding in turns.
“The wild card in all of this is: Will there be national issues that are tangentially related that will bleed into the race?” asked Michael Ford, a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh professor.
Besides the fact that the meeting was a setting where so many parts of me could show up for comic examination, there was a tangentially geopolitical aspect to it.
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