sidetracked

Example Sentences

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But Ravichandran sees a chance that satellite companies get sidetracked and develop products aimed at deep-pocketed defense customers at the expense of other opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

"My ambition was not to be a music photographer, my ambition was to be a war photographer - but I got a sidetracked in a great way," he says.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025

“He had the ambition and the drive to do something great and not get sidetracked or settle for less,” says Campbell.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

She wanted to get it organized and cleared off for me at first but kept getting sidetracked by missing invoices from Birdie’s or notes she’d left herself.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy