side issue
Example Sentences
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“So now, instead of focusing on the main issue, the side issue has become the main point. But those main issues remain, and they still need to be addressed in a clear manner.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 8, 2026
Farage went on to say the Mail interview was a "side issue" and that the party had to investigate the claims against Lowe.
From BBC β Mar. 20, 2025
“This is not a minor side issue — this is how the systems are built. It is existential for these companies to be able to use this amount of data.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 12, 2024
But for our present purposes all that is a side issue, even if it’s also a yawning abyss beneath our feet.
From Salon β Dec. 6, 2019
It was really a side issue as compared with many other questions relating to the earth's surface and its inhabitants with which the medieval mind was occupied.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
