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sidebar
[ sahyd-bahr ]
noun
- a typographically distinct section of a page, as in a book or magazine, that amplifies or highlights the main text.
- a conference between the judge and lawyers out of the presence of the jury.
- a subordinate or incidental issue, remark, activity, etc.
sidebar
/ ˈsaɪdˌbɑː /
noun
- (in a newspaper, website, etc) a short article placed alongside and providing additional information about a longer one
- any subsidiary or supplementary thing
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Example Sentences
Sidebar: the Electoral College is the balk rule of government.
Its addictive “sidebar of shame” catalogues every celebrity roll of fat, fashion faux pas, and shaky early-morning nightclub exit.
He went on to describe the probe as a “sidebar issue” and hinted it was politically motivated.
The judge and the lawyers broke for a sidebar, outside the purview of the jury, the media, and the public.
If things heat up, we might also get a brief sidebar into immigration.
Late in the afternoon the Captain returned riding in a sidebar buggy with a man.
The man drove away in the sidebar leaving the Captain and the lumber wagon.
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