sideshow
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But when the Tigers walloped Clemson 51-10 in the most anticipated matchup of college football’s opening weekend, Kiffin reminded the world that he isn’t content with being the craziest sideshow in America’s wildest sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
And as Britain's political landscape fragments, Binface has become more than a comic sideshow.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Until then, every export-control hearing in Washington is a sideshow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
“She’s not very fond of all the silly sideshow antics down at Luigi’s library. I suspect she wouldn’t mind seeing the place run by more responsible adults.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
The restaurant business is a rough racket, and with all the sideshows the siblings got pulled into, Eric Banh didn’t think Monsoon would last 25 years.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
The July 2022 sideshows, city officials claim, were organized as a birthday celebration for one of the group’s members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
“At the end of the day, sideshows are best thought of as youthful nonsense,” Texas Monthly’s Jack Herrera writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023
But these often felt like sideshows, guidebooks: boosterish accessories to a main event that is now struggling to regain and maintain its centrality in international culture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
The wind whipped down the open walkway, through various sideshows, fun houses, and arcades, all grated over and shut down for the night.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
