: 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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Meanwhile, traditional staples such as editorial board endorsements, once sought by candidates and valued by news consumers, are going by the wayside.—Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024 Amid the cottage industry of fretting over fickle moderates and outré conservatives of color (Cubans in Miami, Byron Donalds and Clarence Thomas, et al.), Asian Americans can fall by the wayside.—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 Then of course - as touched on earlier - the sheer amount of time spent in the office means that other aspects of life fall by the wayside.—Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 Once someone signs up to judge a reality-competition show, the rest of their career falls by the wayside.—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wayside
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