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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It was picked for this year’s Locarno film festival and will screen in the Open Doors sidebar.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
In the Venice documentary sidebar, the Mike Figgis feature Megadoc, a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s last feature Megalopolis, will screen.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 July 2025
The Comet Assistant—the AI agent embedded in the browser—is available from a sidebar at all times.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Comet opens to Perplexity’s AI search engine and its AI operates in a sidebar.
—Jasmine Cui, NBC news, 15 July 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
In the Venice documentary sidebar, the Mike Figgis feature Megadoc, a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s last feature Megalopolis, will screen.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 July 2025
The Comet Assistant—the AI agent embedded in the browser—is available from a sidebar at all times.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Comet opens to Perplexity’s AI search engine and its AI operates in a sidebar.
—Jasmine Cui, NBC news, 15 July 2025
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“Sidebar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidebar. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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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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