: out of consideration : into a condition of neglect or disuse—usually used with fall
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Flowers grew along the wayside.
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And the Royals can’t afford to let any more winnable games fall by the wayside.—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025 Treating cooking like drudgery—another chore to perform—will likely not inspire them to adopt this crucial life skill, one that seems to be going by the wayside in the era of GrubHub and DoorDash.—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025 Over time, awareness of this very 1970s incident fell by the wayside, but in 2022 Jon Hamm starred in an eight-episode podcast dramatization of it.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025 The latest clash between French lawmakers over reducing the country’s hefty public deficit could see its defense spending pledges fall to the wayside, analysts say.—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wayside
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