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Recent Examples of sidetrack
Disallowed goals, bouncing pucks, botched calls — there was plenty to sidetrack a team that has been rolling to start this season.
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Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
This is such a great historical drama with so much fun action and a really unique setting and story, but I keep getting sidetracked by my busy life.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
In more recent years, fleeting trends and other fashion antics sometimes sidetracked Armani, especially on the runway, where aviator hats or tricky pants — from bloomers to loose, low-crotch styles — won him barbs from critics.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
The moon’s clash with Mars threatens to sidetrack you.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
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Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
This is such a great historical drama with so much fun action and a really unique setting and story, but I keep getting sidetracked by my busy life.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
In more recent years, fleeting trends and other fashion antics sometimes sidetracked Armani, especially on the runway, where aviator hats or tricky pants — from bloomers to loose, low-crotch styles — won him barbs from critics.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
The moon’s clash with Mars threatens to sidetrack you.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sidetrack
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The judges judge in relation to that baseline score and can’t deviate too far from it.—
Zack Pierce,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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Yet Kurnos said that Scripps has deviated from its peers with other moves, such as growing Scripps Sports with local media rights.—
Lillian Rizzo,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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Continue reading … POLITICS ON THE BRINK — Senate races to avert third shutdown as DHS deal takes shape.—
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FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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In Connecticut and across New England, where talk of electricity tends to turn on highest-in-the-nation rates, the potential cold weather energy emergency faced by customers elsewhere was averted, but that success comes with a warning.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2026
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Similarly, when conflicts erupt unexpectedly, many flights wind up being diverted to avoid danger on the ground.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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Time that should be spent advancing the work gets diverted to managing fallout.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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But Larkin was at the top of the crease to deflect it past the netminder for the 1-0 lead.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
18 Feb. 2026
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Hughes’ shot was headed directly into the pads of Markstrom, who was perfectly positioned for an easy save, before Larkin, perched on the doorstep, reached out to deflect the puck by Markstrom on his gloved side.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Suzuki just about did it all on the tying goal, sending the puck out to the point to Devon Toews and then redirecting the defenseman’s shot that was going well wide past Lukas Dostal and into the net.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Canada, the team and the country, could finally take a breath when Suzuki redirected defenseman Devon Toews’ shot from the point past Czechia goaltender Lukas Dostal.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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Montage founder, Alan Fuerstman, personally moves into every new property for its first month of operations to ensure the brand’s signature five-star service is up to snuff.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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The players could feel the former United and Wales winger starting to move up the gears.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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According to the report, officers were flagged down by an unknown civilian who told them a white truck was swerving in and out of traffic and that the driver might be drunk.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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In 2023, the Manteca police chief crafted a first-of-its-kind local ordinance specifically to stop swerving.—
Steve Large,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Tenuous evidence of mass exodus Sensor Tower’s user data more fundamentally seems to suggest that beyond anecdotal claims, users have largely been unable to identify tangible changes in TikTok’s American operations, or at least, not enough to meaningfully shift user sentiment.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
16 Feb. 2026
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If the robot learns to pick up a bottle in an exact position and the bottle is shifted slightly, a system that only imitates will repeat the original gesture and fail.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Sidetrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sidetrack. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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