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siding

[sahy-ding] / ˈsaɪ dɪŋ /
NOUN
outside finish
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He also apologised to Meghan for initially siding with her father during their long-running estrangement, and said he had "been protecting the wrong person for the past nine years".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

A 5th Circuit panel rejected the government’s arguments this year before reversing itself in August and siding with the IRS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But in siding with those officials, Schiltz saw an ulterior motive.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

District Judge Troy Nunley issued a preliminary injunction on Friday that blocks the companies from integrating their operations, siding with DirecTV and a coalition of eight states that sued to stop the deal.

From Barron's ● Apr. 18, 2026

Our tavern was finished with shingles, but some of the richer people, like Mr. Heron, had white clapboard siding on their houses.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

"There were railway sidings not far from where we lived at the time, so it's difficult to draw any other conclusions really, because once she'd stopped the eating, she got better."

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

Pulling back a large grey sheet reveals a train track and sidings behind a broken wire fence where Thameslink services shuttle past 24 hours a day between City Thameslink and Farringdon.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

The other thing to do is to build longer sidings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2022

If I’ve got mile-long sidings and three-mile-long trains that can’t get out of the way, I need longer sidings so there’s more room to get out of the way.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2022

The train, battered like a bruised fighter, hissed in the sidings.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys


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