sideshow
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Soon enough, JD could graduate from the sideshow to the center ring.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Get enough of those dates together, and it’s hard not to notice a pattern: These sideshow athletes don’t live very long.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
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
A moneymaking sideshow for insecure couples who didn’t have true love.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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
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
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
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
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