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Recent Examples of sidetrack
Establish specific objectives for your side hustle to keep yourself on track and avoid getting sidetracked by every new idea.
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Shane Murphy, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Discovery to launch the all-sports streamer last fall but was sidetracked by a lawsuit lobbed by Fubo.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
Injuries have sidetracked Bogaerts with the Padres.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Summary: The Power Of A Team OS In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, teams are easily sidetracked by shifting priorities and internal politics.
—Ricky Muddimer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Shane Murphy, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Discovery to launch the all-sports streamer last fall but was sidetracked by a lawsuit lobbed by Fubo.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
Injuries have sidetracked Bogaerts with the Padres.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Summary: The Power Of A Team OS In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, teams are easily sidetracked by shifting priorities and internal politics.
—Ricky Muddimer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sidetrack
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The Justice Department also said that DOGE access doesn't deviate significantly from normal practices inside the agency, where employees are routinely allowed to search its databases.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Their decisions often deviated from strict legal precedent when faced with sympathetic defendants.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The periods between these evolutionary steps present opportunities to slow this process and possibly avert a global disaster.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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Yet the decree was soon averted in the most Trumpian of ways: with a deal.—
Calvin Woodward,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools for five years, diverting tax monies to build a K-12 private academy for 1,400 white students and allotting their families tuition grants.—
Essence,
Essence,
22 Mar. 2025
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Lawrence Hayes was most of the way to London from New York when Virgin Atlantic announced the plane was being diverted to Glasgow.—
BRIAN MELLEY,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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Skubal has consistently deflected all related questions.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to shift blame onto the CBR and Nabiullina in particular to deflect business community anger, according to the ISW, a U.S.-based think tank, citing a prominent Telegram channel that reports on Kremlin insider news.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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Supporting others in tangible ways - like volunteering, donating, or organizing - can help redirect anxiety into collective empowerment.—
Nicole Lipkin,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The severity of the symptoms of arterial thrombosis in the leg varies, depending on which artery is affected, the time course of the artery blockage (sudden versus gradual), and whether the body can redirect blood flow through other arteries.—
Alicen Nelson MD,
Verywell Health,
27 Mar. 2025
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The baby kept moving her fingers right around the dog's eyes, but Daisy Doo didn't care.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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The other major addition was a giant digital tapestry that moved slowly up or down the giant canvas behind the Dead, with surreal animation that had more wealth of detail than the naked eye could take in, even over the course of an extended Dead jam.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2025
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Sanchez swerved onto the freeway shoulder and hit Cortez, prosecutors said.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacramento Bee,
10 Mar. 2025
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The problem with swerving was that there were nearby pedestrians that would be endangered.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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The payment shifted to CPS in 2020 in an effort to financially detangle the district from the city.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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With the usual caveat that lots can change in politics and the list could, and almost certainly will, shift dramatically the deeper Trump’s second administration goes.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Sidetrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sidetrack. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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