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The phrase "this digression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a deviation from the main topic or subject in a discussion or text. Example: "While this digression may seem irrelevant, it actually highlights an important point about the overall argument."
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What's the point of this digression?
Except for this digression, the day's honoree might have felt entirely at home.
Jim — to continue this digression — while on a visit to Walker and his wife, Nancy, in the mid-nineteen-fifties, drew himself a bath, and lying at ease in the tub received an unexpected visit from Cally's two younger brothers.
The English Ford — Ford Madox Ford — prepared the narrative formula in "The Good Soldier" ("Is all this digression or isn't it digression?") in 1915; instead of being patented, however, it was, so to speak, nationalized.
This digression is missing from the manuscripts of Cicero's essay that have come down to us; it was preserved only in a long commentary by the Neoplatonic thinker Macrobius, which circulated in several manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
Here is another: "I don't know; I don't know; was that last remark of hers the remark of a harlot, or is it what every decent woman, county family or not county family, thinks in the bottom of her heart?" And here is another: "Is all this digression or isn't it digression?
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At this moment if I were using footnotes in my Letters I would have the asterisk direct you to the bottom of the page and make optional your reading this minor digression to the main theme of this opening.
Perhaps the mystery of my attraction to the kettlebell, and where it led me, is solved in this very digression.
This long digression is about the only interesting element of "Don't Tempt Me," which opens today in Manhattan and Los Angeles.
This entertaining digression, which begins in a Bronx housing project and ends in a Chinatown co-op, almost steals the show.
Before I return from this Martha Stewart-like digression, I should add that Rees told the audience that he once worked for Martha Stewart, as a fact-checker at Martha Stewart Weddings, and he gives Martha Stewart latent credit for inspiring his venture into artisanal pencil-sharpening.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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