sidetrack

He turned down assisting a professor with data analysis for a book, for instance, because it would have required substantial changes to his class schedule that would sidetrack his early graduation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

When Devi tries to sidetrack Dr. Ryan, she pivots the conversation.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023

“Don’t let short-term volatility sidetrack your goal and strategy to achieve long-term gains,” Burley said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

Georgieva told a conference in Washington that policymakers should adopt targeted measures to alleviate rising food and fuel prices, while avoiding steps that could fuel inflation or sidetrack monetary policy.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

She didn’t want the movement to be distracted by any issues that could interfere with or sidetrack the mission.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

He wants them amped up for when he faces jeopardy in criminal trials or if something sidetracks his nomination.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023

“I hate spending energy and time on this kind of stuff because I feel like it sidetracks us,” state Sen. Shane Morigeau, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, said Thursday.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

If the virus surges again, “it can’t be the kind of thing that sidetracks the country,” said Andy Slavitt, who served as a senior adviser on the response before stepping down last year.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022

"I don't think upward movement in interest rates alone is going to be the catalyst that sidetracks the M&A market," said Morgan Stanley's Miles.

From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2021

Their try-outs had to be made for the most part on sidetracks and freight switches, some miles outside Hendrickton, where the invention would not be in the way of regular traffic.

From Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Don’t get sidetracked by products that you don’t fully understand.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The two started an exchange about their respective career paths, but Danielle got sidetracked and left Drew hanging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The U.S. economy got sidetracked in February by tariff-related price increases, sluggish sales and the previous month’s Winter Storm Fern, but top executives were also more optimistic that business will improve later in the year.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

Ellis says this narrative plays out in the film - Folarin works so much that he becomes "neglectful and sidetracked".

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

He did not want to be sidetracked again, and only grudgingly made his way back through the snow toward her.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Attention then lurched to another hot-button environmental issue — the world’s largest dam removal on the Elwha River — further sidetracking efforts to extend wilderness areas.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

“People did it for me,” he says before sidetracking into bafflement over what GIF means.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020

At one point he laments his sidetracking by drawing pictures of the plot line as strands of loops, switchbacks, and squiggles.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

Chamber of Commerce international economics head Myron Brilliant — that the two sides have set up a separate working group to help avoid sidetracking the rest of the discussion.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2013

Now Mr. Platt knew that nothing but "sidetracking" could stop another nomination of Roosevelt for the Governorship, and this Rough Rider was a thorn in his flesh.

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland