sideshow
Example Sentences
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Some analysts say the vote is a sideshow.
From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026
The magician Ricky Jay’s compendium of actual “unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers” offers a parade of con artists, charlatans, escapologists, daredevils, mesmerists, contortionists and sideshow acts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
On X, where he has 4.7 million followers, he has channeled his pop-culture savvy and political outrage into a satirical sideshow, firing off punchlines like proton torpedoes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025
Amorim knows, stripped away from the sideshow, he must deliver results.
From BBC • May 30, 2025
He greedily studied the crowd and found the heroine standing near a sideshow.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
