sideshow
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Tourret at the French marine institute agreed, calling the trips by the Chinese and South Korean vessels a sideshow.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Yet all that gargantuan power consumption is a sideshow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
Some analysts say the vote is a sideshow.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
In the election, nearly reduced to a sideshow, Wense Grabarek won by 2,245 votes.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Several thousand people paid real money to come cheer a dozen teams at the debut event set for Saturday in St. Augustine, with contests and sideshows inspired by real events from America’s most surreal state.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Authorities reported five other sideshows that same night in Compton and South Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Consider the tourist exhibits in ancient Sparta, which by Roman times had become a theme park of wonders and sideshows.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2024
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
“People come to sideshows to see stunts and tricks and what-all, and as far as anybody knew that’s exactly what we showed them.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
