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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sidetrack .
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Examples
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If I can't see what I've just written, I can't nitpick it, and so I don't get sidetracked from the scene as it is in my head.
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In Bradford's thread Superstitious Nonsense I found myself sidetracked from the actual topic by a couple of our critics who seemed to be playing dumb.
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Let’s not get sidetracked from the laughability or implications of the garbage Ann has been spewing by calling her a trannie and accusing her of having a sex change – besides, the comparison is insulting to any transvestite out there.
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Now, Mr. Birkett acknowledges, he doesn't get "sidetracked" by nonwork-related video like he used to.
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Queen of the Fleet, despatched several weeks before to fetch along the troops "sidetracked" at Honolulu, just as the commanding general and his chief surgeon were in consultation as to what on earth to do with
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Mr Darling, who was overruled on plans to increase VAT, will say his colleagues failed to recognise public concern over spiralling government debt, instead getting "sidetracked" into an argument for "investment over cuts".
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Mr Darling, who was overruled on plans to increase VAT, will say his colleagues failed to recognise public concern over spiralling government debt, instead getting "sidetracked" into an argument for "investment over cuts".
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Governor Herbert: "I just don't want this to be kind of sidetracked because of this list coming up here at the last minute and somehow taking our eye off the ball."
ABC 4: Top Stories 2010
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Governor Herbert: "I just don't want this to be kind of sidetracked because of this list coming up here at the last minute and somehow taking our eye off the ball."
ABC 4: Top Stories 2010
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Sutton had two serious injures -- an ankle in 2007 and a broken wrist in 2008 -- that kind of sidetracked him.
JSOnline.com 2009
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