wayside
Example Sentences
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As the skies over Switzerland darken with the usual billionaires’ jets, the old Davos agenda is falling by the wayside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
It was agreed last month by European Union leaders who settled on a loan backed by the bloc's common budget, after plans to tap frozen Russian central bank assets fell by the wayside.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
The boring and soft-spoken, but effective, tenets of earning money, stacking it and growing it fall to the wayside.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
Whoever falls by the wayside - McCullum, Rob Key, or neither - Stokes will remain, his importance to the England team undiminished.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
