Synonyms for Sideshow
ˈsaɪdˌʃoʊsideshow

Princeton's WordNet

1. sideshownoun

   a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event

   "instruction is not an educational sideshow"

2. sideshownoun

   a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus)

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1. • Incident
   • Show

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1. List of paraphrases for "sideshow":

   tahiti, circus, cirque

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1. Charles Krauthammer:

   This is a woman, this is a candidate who is going to be the nominee. We all know it, for all of the Bernie momentum stuff. That’s a sideshow. But you have to go through 15, 16 months of a ritual of actually campaigning, there is no campaign. There is not going to be a debate. There isn’t a challenge. So she is stuck for these 15 or so months pretending to be a candidate and what you get are pretend events.

2. Steven Sotloff:

   The foreign fighter thing is a sideshow in this conflict... but at the end of the day it really isn't a long-term solution or particularly important part, the guys that SOLI are training are the most highly capable, intelligent, motivated fighters that we've had -- they request that we get up early to do physical training.

3. Marco Rubio:

   These kinds of theatrics by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are an entertaining sideshow, but they have nothing to do with defeating Hillary Clinton, i'm going to stay focused on uniting the Republican party so we can defeat Hillary Clinton and turn the page on eight years of liberal failure. We don't have time for these kinds of distractions.

4. Asa Hutchinson:

   The office is more important than any individual person. So for the sake of the office of the presidency, I do think that’s too much of a sideshow and distraction, he needs to be able to concentrate on his due process.

5. Mark Penn:

   Most voters see the Jan 6th committee as a political sideshow, the committee obviously wants to put Trump front and center as much as they can and create discussion about Jan. 6 instead of inflation, immigration and crime.