sideshow

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When Leath was charged with the murders of her two husbands a decade later, the confrontation with Walker made news again, but amounted to a baffling and salacious sideshow, its significance unclear.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Surrealism continues to fuel artists’ and viewers’ imaginations, but it has increasingly become art’s carnival sideshow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

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

Modern accounting and investor trust have reduced dividends to a sideshow, but they used to be the whole point.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

The biggest event Suffolk had seen in years was a traveling sideshow that came through town on the railroad tracks, with a stiffed whale in a boxcar.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride