sideshow

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Modern accounting and investor trust have reduced dividends to a sideshow, but they used to be the whole point.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

The magician Ricky Jay’s compendium of actual “unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers” offers a parade of con artists, charlatans, escapologists, daredevils, mesmerists, contortionists and sideshow acts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

The game itself was a sideshow - both teams will meet in the Championship next season having already been relegated.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

It would be more rewarding if it didn’t have the overtones of a circus sideshow.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass