sideshow

Start-ups, she told the Sunday Times, external, were being treated as a "sideshow" and should not be pushed to the "margins of economic policy".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

She didn’t take the time to get to know us, and as a result we once again got a low-grade sideshow.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Perhaps the biggest sideshow has been the struggle for influence around the promotion itself.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And as Britain's political landscape fragments, Binface has become more than a comic sideshow.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Europe might contain all the cultural capitals and current world powers, but in terms of America's national interest, it was a mere sideshow and distraction.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Street takeovers, or sideshows as they are known, typically draw large crowds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 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

The wind whipped down the open walkway, through various sideshows, fun houses, and arcades, all grated over and shut down for the night.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older