side issue

Example Sentences

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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

Former Sky News anchor Adam Boulton called the question of illegality "a side issue".

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2023

Time after time, the real issue stands before us, and we find ourselves baying after some side issue of far less importance.

From Salon • May 13, 2023

"It is time that we stop treating child care as a side issue or a quote, unquote, women's issue. This is a family issue," he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2015

This is not to be wondered at in a book that draws from the same speculative conception the conclusion that the transfer of property was purely a side issue in Roman inheritance.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich