sidebar

noun

side·​bar ˈsīd-ˌbär How to pronounce sidebar (audio)
1
a
: a short news story or graphic accompanying and presenting sidelights of a major story
b
: something incidental : sidelight
a sidebar to the essay's central theme
2
: a conference between the judge, the lawyers, and sometimes the parties to a case that the jury does not hear

Examples of sidebar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The end result is a single specification and certification program that can work across multiple countries (see sidebar). Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024 Look for the trash can inside the left sidebar in Gmail and click on it. Boone Ashworth Lauren Goode, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024 Natural capital accounting, which U.S. statistical agencies are developing as a sidebar to their measurements of gross domestic product, puts numbers on those services. Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024 There’s No Other Land, screening in the documentary section of Berlin’s Panorama sidebar, about Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024 In total more than 24,000 Berlinale viewers cast votes for the 31 films screened in this year’s Panorama and Panorama Dokumente sidebars. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024 In the rest of Jackson County, put your information in the Voter ID Lookup section in the election board’s website’s sidebar. Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024 As the Lions rolled toward a 38-6 victory over Dallas, I was assigned a sidebar from the Cowboys locker room and a notebook. Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024 Incorporate powerful quotes as pull quotes or place them in a sidebar for emphasis. Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of sidebar was in 1928

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Cite this Entry

“Sidebar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidebar. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Legal Definition

sidebar

noun
side·​bar ˈsīd-ˌbär How to pronounce sidebar (audio)
: sidebar conference
had failed to request a sidebar before injecting the collateral offense into the trialDockery v. State, 659 So. 2d 219 (1994)
also : the place near or before the bench where a sidebar conference takes place
the judge informed both attorneys…that they…could stand at sidebar while questions were posed Commonwealth v. Urena, 632 N.E.2d 1200 (1994)
compare bench, stand
sidebar adjective
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