change the subject

Deliberately talk about another topic, as in If someone asks you an embarrassing question, just change the subject. This term uses subject in the sense of “a topic of conversation,” a usage dating from the late 1500s.

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Alas, Trump has been reserved throughout this process, refusing to go blow-for-blow, saying he’s “disappointed” in Elon and otherwise trying to change the subject.

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There had been some thought that Trump's surprise announcement on Wednesday night of a new travel ban, additional sanctions on Harvard and a conspiracy-laced administration investigation of former President Joe Biden were all efforts to change the subject from Musk's criticism.

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After answering several questions about the subject, she quickly shut down another one towards the end of the half-hour event, saying she wanted to "change the subject".

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On Friday, after arriving back in the United States, Van Hollen told reporters that the Trump administration was attempting to change the subject from a constitutional crisis over due process.

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The opposition party will delight in being able to tell a simple story about destructive incompetence, one that resonates even with voters who only get their news by accident from TikTok dance videos; the party in power will try to change the subject, ineffectually.

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