sideshow
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The petrodollar was always a sideshow to this deeper story.
From Barron's ● May 27, 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
But on Friday in Miami, that sideshow collides with boxing's top tier as Paul faces two-time heavyweight world champion and Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
In seeking to explain his plunge into the fifth round, some pointed to concerns about Shedeur’s personality and the sideshow of being the son of “Coach Prime.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Slavery was not a sideshow to the settlement and development of America but a central feature.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Several thousand people paid real money to come cheer a dozen teams at the debut event set for Saturday in St. Augustine, with contests and sideshows inspired by real events from America’s most surreal state.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Authorities reported five other sideshows that same night in Compton and South Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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
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
“People come to sideshows to see stunts and tricks and what-all, and as far as anybody knew that’s exactly what we showed them.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
