: the side of or land adjacent to a road or path
wayside
adjective
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Flowers grew along the wayside.
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Tanizaki’s critique was, in part, a call for cultural preservation; aesthetic values with long histories risked falling by the wayside during a period of militarized globalization.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
That has fallen by the wayside.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 June 2026
Not only has that minute program, with its middle-class appeal, fallen by the wayside, but the state’s pre-existing and equally minute youth employment programs for potential dropouts have been allowed to shrink.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2026
The deal leaves the Senate’s suggestion of a tax on corporations who leave their employees reliant on the state’s Medicaid system, called Medi-Cal, by the wayside for this year.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
That has fallen by the wayside.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 June 2026
Not only has that minute program, with its middle-class appeal, fallen by the wayside, but the state’s pre-existing and equally minute youth employment programs for potential dropouts have been allowed to shrink.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2026
The deal leaves the Senate’s suggestion of a tax on corporations who leave their employees reliant on the state’s Medicaid system, called Medi-Cal, by the wayside for this year.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
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“Wayside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayside. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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