: 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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With less money being invested by record labels into touring, that has created a top-heavy artist hierarchy, with the rich getting richer and the poor and middle class falling by the wayside.—Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 At the same time, the Giants, Diamondbacks and Cardinals have fallen by the wayside.—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025 OpenAI has experimented with many ChatGPT features over the years, some of which become essential and some fall by the wayside.—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025 And perhaps a couple of hundred pages are taken up with entries presenting preferred spelling and pronunciations, in many cases of words that have fallen by the wayside.—Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wayside
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