Really appreciate funky seniors with singular deviations! (11)

I believe the answer is:

digressions

'deviations' is the definition.
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'really appreciate funky seniors with singular' is the wordplay.
'really appreciate' becomes 'dig' (to dig something is to appreciate it).
'funky' indicates an anagram (an unusual form of the letters).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'singular' becomes 's' (abbreviation sometimes used in dictionaries).
'seniors' is an anagram of 'ression'.
'dig'+'ression'+'s'='DIGRESSIONS'

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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