sideshow
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“AI is no longer a sideshow, it is serving as a significant revenue contributor,” analyst Yi Fu Lee says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The petrodollar was always a sideshow to this deeper story.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Graham and Van der Merwe's continuing battle to end their respective careers as Scotland's all-time top try scorer is another entertaining sideshow.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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
In Hartford, a handful of patrons take serious exception to Rosie’s nonperformance, as well as the continued presence of the Lovely Lucinda sideshow banner despite the unfortunate absence of the Lovely Lucinda.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
The music is loud, the sideshows are unnecessary and the uniforms are awful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024
“There would have been a lot of sideshows if he were to testify that would have, I think, made it a challenge for him,” Blanche said.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 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
“People come to sideshows to see stunts and tricks and what-all, and as far as anybody knew that’s exactly what we showed them.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
