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branch off

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic, intransitive, of a path or route) To diverge into two or more separate paths.

To separate from a main path or route.

(of a conversation) To divert from the main topic of conversation.

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branch-off

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Examples

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. William Irwin Thompson

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing. Noah Gray-Cabey

An example of this is Google because users go into this website with a certain mindset of what they want to search for, and they get a certain result as they branch off and end at another website. Source: Internet

By this scenario, Blackfoot was the first language to branch off, which coincides well with its being the most divergent language of Algonquian. Source: Internet

Conidiophores may simply branch off from the mycelia or they may be formed in fruiting bodies. Source: Internet

During pre-game, they branch off from the rest of the band. Source: Internet

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