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touched on it tangentially
How To Use tangentially In A Sentence
- He remains one of the few people whose coolness is only tangentially captured by the camera.
- Neither really confronts other than tangentially how being a port distinctively shaped the urban environment and the urban experience.
- 'In the past few weeks, wingnut America has been going through a rough break-up with two of its most visible and attractive young women, and by \ "most visible\" I really mean the only young women even tangentially associated with the Republican party, conservative movement, or whatever they\'re calling themselves these days. Will Menaker: Meghan McCain: What Are You Doing This Friday?
- With PDA System the experiment and spectrum analysis on turbulent now had been conducted for vertical bias combustion in tangentially fired furnace.
- So far the only other person to express interest in standing is Kelvin Mackenzie, the former editor of the Sun (and, tangentially, the person responsible for this little gem). Not unprecedented, but pretty damn close « Gin&Comment
- touched on it tangentially
- For the last fourteen years the bulk of policy debate has been not about how we address the organic issues facing an economy and society like that of the UK, but how we footle around at the edges of it, creating projects that may, tangentially, affect someone somewhere, but in all probability not. Arts & Ecology blog
- You are hopelessly provincial, though tangentially correct in noting that America does have excellent universities (one of our best assets). Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government
- There's no longer anything basic about the service, though. It's chockablock with features, options and related tools, some of which are only tangentially related to e-mail.
- This book, at least in this incarnation is around 500 pages long, and a lot of the middle is taken up with other threads, that while tangentially interesting are nowhere near as good as the parts featuring Cormac and his directly related allies themselves. Superhero Prose Fiction: Polity - 3 Brass Man