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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing
noun a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story

From side + bar.

"Whatever," Scott waved away the sidebar. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
Her latest expose of America's corporate fat cats, which actually got a sidebar in the story, claimed they'd better start cutting their million-dollar salaries and putting the money into creating American jobs, or we'd all soon end up fetching coffee for the new Pacific Rim dynamos and buying our goodies at East Asia's company store. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover

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