Deviations
Tangents and deviations are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tangents" instead a noun "Deviations".
Tangents
Deviations and tangents are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deviations" instead a noun "Tangents".
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Every episode of The Two Ronnies featured Ronnie Corbett sitting in a chair telling a joke but going off on no end of humorous tangents and deviations, without which the joke would have taken well under a minute to tell and wouldn't have been all that funny anyway.
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