sideshow
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But much of it is sideshow, or filler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Until then, every export-control hearing in Washington is a sideshow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some analysts say the vote is a sideshow.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
But on Friday in Miami, that sideshow collides with boxing's top tier as Paul faces two-time heavyweight world champion and Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Slavery was not a sideshow to the settlement and development of America but a central feature.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
Bernardo Lopez believes the city began to investigate his shop after seeing its stickers on cars at sideshows; he distributes the stickers in exchange for discounts as a marketing strategy, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Consider the tourist exhibits in ancient Sparta, which by Roman times had become a theme park of wonders and sideshows.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2024
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
The wind whipped down the open walkway, through various sideshows, fun houses, and arcades, all grated over and shut down for the night.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
