side issue
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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
“This is not a minor side issue — this is how the systems are built. It is existential for these companies to be able to use this amount of data.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
But just the side issue of how to pay for the state’s roads, as more electric cars deplete the state’s gas tax revenues, is inciting some incendiary reactions from the public of late.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
But this, for now, is a side issue.
From BBC ● May 27, 2022
Roman candles and fire-crackers still went off at intervals in different parts of the campus, but they were only a side issue, the fire was the real business of the evening.
From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various
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