sideshow

Example Sentences

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“AI is no longer a sideshow, it is serving as a significant revenue contributor,” analyst Yi Fu Lee says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

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

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

We didn’t, and so we shifted direction toward the sideshow.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs