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

But just the side issue of how to pay for the state’s roads, as more electric cars deplete the state’s gas tax revenues, is inciting some incendiary reactions from the public of late.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 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

"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

Ice-cream is always intensely popular as a side issue.

From The Children of the Poor by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)