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sidelines
/ ˈɪˌɪԳ /
plural noun
- sport the area immediately outside the playing area, where substitute players sit
- the peripheral areas of any region, organization, etc
Idioms and Phrases
see on the sidelines .Example Sentences
But those are the whitewashed versions — Hollywood’s curated fantasy that sidelines the truth.
Additional spectators watched along the sidelines in hopes of glimpsing the series’ stars.
Health and Human Services chief Xavier Becerra, two other top Democrats running for governor, also called out politicians for sitting on the sidelines.
Barkley told Evans that Bradley Cooper is a “diehard” Eagles fan and is always on the sidelines at games.
There was no NFL team in Los Angeles at the time, and Carroll’s sidelines were always a who’s who of the entertainment industry.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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