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
At least one powerful general tried to sidetrack it, Mr. Hammond told the Boston Globe in 1989, but he declined to name him.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022
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
Feeling the body, but not using it to sidetrack the mind.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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
He wanted to ignore it, to go his own way apart, like a casual pilgrim down the forsaken sidetracks.
From England, My England by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The two started an exchange about their respective career paths, but Danielle got sidetracked and left Drew hanging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
"I suppose you don't want to get overly emotional and make it too big a thing and get sidetracked from the main objective," Doris said of the legendary trio's home swansong.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
He got sidetracked on issues such as the size of crowds at his rallies and a bizarre — and debunked — claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are killing and eating household pets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
It does distract me from my other distractions for a bit, and I’m able to knock out my homework and shower without getting sidetracked.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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
Arano was a standout prospect for the Philadelphia Phillies, thrived in 60 appearances in 2018, then hurt his elbow in April 2019, sidetracking his career.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 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
For were it not for their skill in understanding the intricacies of the subject and in sidetracking irrelevant claims the disputes would be impossible of satisfactory arrangement.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
