side issue
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“So now, instead of focusing on the main issue, the side issue has become the main point. But those main issues remain, and they still need to be addressed in a clear manner.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
“This is not a minor side issue — this is how the systems are built. It is existential for these companies to be able to use this amount of data.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Former Sky News anchor Adam Boulton called the question of illegality "a side issue".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023
But for our present purposes all that is a side issue, even if it’s also a yawning abyss beneath our feet.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2019
All that happens is that the woman, tiring of the central argument, has pursued each side issue as it offered itself.
From The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George
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