sideshow
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And as Britain's political landscape fragments, Binface has become more than a comic sideshow.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 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
Some analysts say the vote is a sideshow.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
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
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
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
