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sideshow

noun as in minor attraction

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Its resolution will determine whether the party has a chance of regaining power or whether it will be an increasingly irrelevant sideshow in a country dominated by the left.

There’s an overlay of international politics involved, with a sideshow storyline about the Justice Department allegedly approaching Gaetz’s father, a former Florida politician, about funding a mission to find an ex-FBI agent missing in Iran.

From TIme

Right now, investors don’t want to see any noise or sideshows from Tesla and Musk.

Irving has been an unreliable co-star so far this season, alternating between fantastic scoring outbursts and confusing sideshows.

On the old web, designed to deliver hyper-targeted ads to unimaginably large audiences, creators have been a sideshow.

From Fortune

But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.

The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations.

The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.

The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.

But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.

"Biting off live chickens' heads, in a sideshow wild-man act," Hideyoshi O'Leary supplied.

Hagen got a quick mental flash of a barker outside a circus sideshow: He walks like a man.

Unfortunately for posterity, Stieffel did not record his impressions of this little-known sideshow of the Civil War.

To make it take an hour he'd have to be ossified, wouldn't he, like the feller in the circus sideshow?

The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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