11
digressive(adjective, approach, tending, digressing)
7
peripheral(adjective, minor, outside)
6
extraneous(adjective, digressing)
5
divergent(adjective, digressing)
4
irrelevant
4
rambling(adjective, approach)
4
touching
3
minor
3
unrelated(adjective, digressing)
3
osculatory
3
unimportant
2
tangent(adjective, touching)
2
approaching
2
confluent
2
excursive(adjective, approach, divergent, straying)
2
in contact(expression, idiom, contiguity)
2
meeting
2
parenthetic(adjective, approach, digressive)
2
secondary
2
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