sidebar
[sahyd-bahr]
- follow-up(def 3b).
- a typographically distinct section of a page, as in a book or magazine, that amplifies or highlights the main text.
- a conference between the judge and lawyers out of the presence of the jury.
- a subordinate or incidental issue, remark, activity, etc.
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Origin of sidebar
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Examples from the Web for sidebar
Contemporary Examples
Sidebar: the Electoral College is the balk rule of government.
Its addictive “sidebar of shame” catalogues every celebrity roll of fat, fashion faux pas, and shaky early-morning nightclub exit.
Hollywood vs. The Daily Mail: George Clooney and Angelina Jolie Take On The UK's Leanest, Meanest Gossip MachineLizzie Crocker, Lloyd Grove
July 12, 2014
He went on to describe the probe as a “sidebar issue” and hinted it was politically motivated.
The judge and the lawyers broke for a sidebar, outside the purview of the jury, the media, and the public.
And not just an obit, but a sidebar under the hed "Caruso Kept Hoping He Would Return."
Historical Examples
The man drove away in the sidebar leaving the Captain and the lumber wagon.
Horses NineSewell Ford
Late in the afternoon the Captain returned riding in a sidebar buggy with a man.
Horses NineSewell Ford
sidebar
- (in a newspaper, website, etc) a short article placed alongside and providing additional information about a longer one
- any subsidiary or supplementary thing
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Word Origin and History for sidebar
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