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Synonyms for sideshow
ˈsaɪdˌʃoʊsideshow

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sideshownoun

    a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event

    "instruction is not an educational sideshow"

  2. sideshownoun

    a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus)

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  1. List of paraphrases for "sideshow":

    tahiti, circus, cirque

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How to use sideshow in a sentence?

  1. Rich Noyes:

    It seems high and mighty of the Huffington Post to decide who is and who isn't a real candidate when Donald Trump is leading in the Republican polls right now, they wouldn't have taken kindly if the rest of the media had treated Arianna Huffington's run for governor of California as a sideshow. I would say it's up to the voters to decide who is a real candidate and who is not.

  2. Gavin Newsom:

    James Gallagher knows that James Gallagher’s in trouble, and James Gallagher’s using this as a sideshow distraction to introduce another gun law, so hopefully people will not see and pay attention to James Gallagher terrible record on their quality of life, the governor needs to focus his efforts on things that will lower the cost of living for Californians, actually solve homelessness, instead of one-off gestures that are n’t going to do anything to stop gun violence.

  3. Fox News:

    Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, the Pueblo fell through the cracks of history because it became a sideshow to everything that happened.

  4. Steven Sotloff:

    The foreign fighter thing is a sideshow in this conflict... but at the end of the day it really isn't a long-term solution or particularly important part, the guys that SOLI are training are the most highly capable, intelligent, motivated fighters that we've had -- they request that we get up early to do physical training.

  5. Wilfredo Navarro:

    What is said outside is nothing more than a sideshow to make the negotiation tense, this dialogue has many enemies.

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