: 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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And topping Preservation Chicago’s 24th annual list are two historical features at the Art Institute, which may fall by the wayside under a plan to expand the sprawling campus along South Michigan Avenue.
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Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
And the original justifications given was the nuclear threat and those kinds of things—all of them have just sort of fallen by the wayside.
—Nik Popli, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
Sabin’s effort, however, produced a candidate vaccine with viruses that were even further attenuated and safer to use than Koprowski’s, and the Wistar version fell by the wayside.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
Big picture concerns of streaming consolidation and theatrical releases fell by the wayside in both of these instances.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 Feb. 2026
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Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
And the original justifications given was the nuclear threat and those kinds of things—all of them have just sort of fallen by the wayside.
—Nik Popli, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
Sabin’s effort, however, produced a candidate vaccine with viruses that were even further attenuated and safer to use than Koprowski’s, and the Wistar version fell by the wayside.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
Big picture concerns of streaming consolidation and theatrical releases fell by the wayside in both of these instances.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 Feb. 2026
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“Wayside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayside. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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