side issue

Example Sentences

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“So now, instead of focusing on the main issue, the side issue has become the main point. But those main issues remain, and they still need to be addressed in a clear manner.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“This is not a minor side issue — this is how the systems are built. It is existential for these companies to be able to use this amount of data.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

But just the side issue of how to pay for the state’s roads, as more electric cars deplete the state’s gas tax revenues, is inciting some incendiary reactions from the public of late.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023

But for our present purposes all that is a side issue, even if it’s also a yawning abyss beneath our feet.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2019

This is not to be wondered at in a book that draws from the same speculative conception the conclusion that the transfer of property was purely a side issue in Roman inheritance.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich