1
a
: a short news story or graphic accompanying and presenting sidelights of a major story
b
: something incidental : sidelight
a sidebar to the essay's central theme
2
: a conference between the judge, the lawyers, and sometimes the parties to a case that the jury does not hear
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Image: Microsoft Another allowed Copilot in Windows to pop out of the sidebar and into a normal application window, which users could resize and move around.
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Richard Lawler, The Verge, 3 May 2024
These handy timestamped checkmarks automatically integrate into your calendar, and can be found in the same sidebar along with Keep notes in Gmail.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 3 May 2024
The murder case wasn’t directly mentioned during the sentencing, though it was seemingly alluded to — and possibly discussed during a sidebar that both parties agreed to have sealed.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
And in the Cannes Premiere sidebar, the festival has added Gael Morel’s Vivre, Mourir, Renaitre and Jessica Palud’s Maria.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
For those who live elsewhere in Jackson County, input your information in the Voter ID Lookup section in the election board’s website’s sidebar.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2024
At its first release the Copilot button lived far from the actual Copilot sidebar, on the left side of the toolbar, but an update moved it to its more logical placement on the right corner of the Taskbar.
—PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
The lineup includes the official competition and out-of-competition titles, the films in the main festival sidebar Un Certain Regard, as well as special and midnight screenings and the Cannes premiere selection.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
Like many photo programs, the left sidebar has image sources, including hard drives, and ACDSee Mobile Sync, which sucks up photos and videos from your smartphone via the ACDSee Mobile Sync app.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Richard Lawler, The Verge, 3 May 2024
These handy timestamped checkmarks automatically integrate into your calendar, and can be found in the same sidebar along with Keep notes in Gmail.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 3 May 2024
The murder case wasn’t directly mentioned during the sentencing, though it was seemingly alluded to — and possibly discussed during a sidebar that both parties agreed to have sealed.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
And in the Cannes Premiere sidebar, the festival has added Gael Morel’s Vivre, Mourir, Renaitre and Jessica Palud’s Maria.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
For those who live elsewhere in Jackson County, input your information in the Voter ID Lookup section in the election board’s website’s sidebar.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2024
At its first release the Copilot button lived far from the actual Copilot sidebar, on the left side of the toolbar, but an update moved it to its more logical placement on the right corner of the Taskbar.
—PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
The lineup includes the official competition and out-of-competition titles, the films in the main festival sidebar Un Certain Regard, as well as special and midnight screenings and the Cannes premiere selection.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
Like many photo programs, the left sidebar has image sources, including hard drives, and ACDSee Mobile Sync, which sucks up photos and videos from your smartphone via the ACDSee Mobile Sync app.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
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“Sidebar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidebar. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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sidebar
noun
side·bar
ˈsīd-ˌbär 
: sidebar conference
had failed to request a sidebar before injecting the collateral offense into the trial—Dockery v. State, 659 So. 2d 219 (1994)
Dockery v. State, 659 So. 2d 219 (1994)
sidebar
adjective
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