side issue

Example Sentences

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“So now, instead of focusing on the main issue, the side issue has become the main point. But those main issues remain, and they still need to be addressed in a clear manner.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

But this, for now, is a side issue.

From BBC • May 27, 2022

But for our present purposes all that is a side issue, even if it’s also a yawning abyss beneath our feet.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2019

"It is time that we stop treating child care as a side issue or a quote, unquote, women's issue. This is a family issue," he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2015

McKinley trip until Peary brought it up as a side issue to throw doubt on Dr. Cook's Polar Claim; see page 534 of this book.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.