sideshow
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Start-ups, she told the Sunday Times, external, were being treated as a "sideshow" and should not be pushed to the "margins of economic policy".
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
She didn’t take the time to get to know us, and as a result we once again got a low-grade sideshow.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Perhaps the biggest sideshow has been the struggle for influence around the promotion itself.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The petrodollar was always a sideshow to this deeper story.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Since I had been blamed for the mess, a few of the other children came to check on me as if I were a sideshow.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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Amanda Swager, a chemistry teacher at Chino High School who said they were intersex, said “these sideshows, these resolutions do absolutely nothing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
The restaurant business is a rough racket, and with all the sideshows the siblings got pulled into, Eric Banh didn’t think Monsoon would last 25 years.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
“At the end of the day, sideshows are best thought of as youthful nonsense,” Texas Monthly’s Jack Herrera writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023
But these often felt like sideshows, guidebooks: boosterish accessories to a main event that is now struggling to regain and maintain its centrality in international culture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Remembering Emma’s stories of performing in traveling sideshows with Miss Peregrine and the others, I turned to her and asked, “Are they peculiar?”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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