sidetrack
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He turned down assisting a professor with data analysis for a book, for instance, because it would have required substantial changes to his class schedule that would sidetrack his early graduation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
When Devi tries to sidetrack Dr. Ryan, she pivots the conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023
Not wanting to sidetrack his team, the president resumed playing cards until shortly before 3:30 p.m., when Panetta announced that the helicopters were nearing the compound.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Georgieva told a conference in Washington that policymakers should adopt targeted measures to alleviate rising food and fuel prices, while avoiding steps that could fuel inflation or sidetrack monetary policy.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022
I led my army northward, rarely having to sidetrack; the emperor himself sent the enemies I was hunting chasing after me.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
He wants them amped up for when he faces jeopardy in criminal trials or if something sidetracks his nomination.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023
"I don't think upward movement in interest rates alone is going to be the catalyst that sidetracks the M&A market," said Morgan Stanley's Miles.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2021
The sprawl makes room for mistakes, but the sprawl also makes room for one-off experiments and odd narrative sidetracks.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2020
The silver lining in loss of funding may be that Kansas officials finally engage in a remedy - even if it sidetracks the quest for a short, sweet legislative session.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2015
Also the different parts of the siege train and ammunition for same, which will be required immediately on landing, are scattered through hundreds of cars on the sidetracks of the railroads.
From The Career of Leonard Wood by Joseph Hamblen Sears
The U.S. economy got sidetracked in February by tariff-related price increases, sluggish sales and the previous month’s Winter Storm Fern, but top executives were also more optimistic that business will improve later in the year.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Ellis says this narrative plays out in the film - Folarin works so much that he becomes "neglectful and sidetracked".
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
It’s a shame he got sidetracked into action-hero franchises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Too sidetracked by the endless rows of showstopping vehicles, he foregoes a goodbye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
The few researchers who did examine Andean societies were often sidetracked into ideological warfare.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Attention then lurched to another hot-button environmental issue — the world’s largest dam removal on the Elwha River — further sidetracking efforts to extend wilderness areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
A dozen ways of diverting, sidetracking, or derailing the conversation came to mind, yet somehow Nadine heard herself confessing to these people that Mercury’s funds were limited.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
“People did it for me,” he says before sidetracking into bafflement over what GIF means.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020
Chamber of Commerce international economics head Myron Brilliant — that the two sides have set up a separate working group to help avoid sidetracking the rest of the discussion.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2013
From what he had heard of human prisoners, he'd guessed that sidetracking Steve's train of thought might help; it seemed to have worked.
From Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson
