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Attention then lurched to another hot-button environmental issue — the world’s largest dam removal on the Elwha River — further sidetracking efforts to extend wilderness areas.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022

“People did it for me,” he says before sidetracking into bafflement over what GIF means.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2020

At one point he laments his sidetracking by drawing pictures of the plot line as strands of loops, switchbacks, and squiggles.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2016

Chamber of Commerce international economics head Myron Brilliant — that the two sides have set up a separate working group to help avoid sidetracking the rest of the discussion.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2013

Now Mr. Platt knew that nothing but "sidetracking" could stop another nomination of Roosevelt for the Governorship, and this Rough Rider was a thorn in his flesh.

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Howland, Harold