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Example Sentences

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The petrodollar was always a sideshow to this deeper story.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Most clubs do not leave it this late to tie down their starters to new deals, but contracts have become a complex sideshow over the past few years at Anfield.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

In seeking to explain his plunge into the fifth round, some pointed to concerns about Shedeur’s personality and the sideshow of being the son of “Coach Prime.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 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

He greedily studied the crowd and found the heroine standing near a sideshow.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole