sideshow
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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
But all anyone inside the arena seemed to be talking about was the sideshow between a pair of legendary coaches—and a potential changing of the guard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Surrealism continues to fuel artists’ and viewers’ imaginations, but it has increasingly become art’s carnival sideshow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Excitement over future AI business has largely reduced Cipher’s existing operations to a sideshow.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
The crowd that followed the parade back from town gathers in the midway, and before long Cecil is working the suckers in front of the sideshow.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
“There would have been a lot of sideshows if he were to testify that would have, I think, made it a challenge for him,” Blanche said.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
Authorities reported five other sideshows that same night in Compton and South Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
“At the end of the day, sideshows are best thought of as youthful nonsense,” Texas Monthly’s Jack Herrera writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 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
Remembering Emma’s stories of performing in traveling sideshows with Miss Peregrine and the others, I turned to her and asked, “Are they peculiar?”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
