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Discover LudwigThe phrase "side track" is a correct and usable in written English
It refers to a verbal or written deviation from the main topic or focus of a conversation or text. Example: During the meeting, the boss kept getting side tracked by personal anecdotes that had nothing to do with the agenda.
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"We have to go back to basics – do the nasty side, track back, work.
When a research worker gets on the side track of electronic physics, they tell him to go ahead.
The train carrying the chlorine ran off a through track and onto a side track, hitting a local train that had parked there about seven hours earlier.
Riders may find themselves inching along behind a lumbering freight train for miles at a time, until the route reaches a side track on which the Amtrak train can pass.
We take a side track parallel to the border and drive past a Macedonian army post, ringed with barbed wire, and climb to a tiny village overlooking the silent road and the Marie Celeste village of Seqishte.
That turned out to be Teaneck which has two and a half miles of side track to Bogota's half-mile and, unlike Bogota, has no street-level grade crossings.
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But enough of this side tracking.
"You must be absolutely clear, with no side tracking about who needs intervention in this draft".
Again, drilling problems led to side tracking of the well.
Consequently fishing, and eventually side tracking, was performed.
Fig. 10 There are no "main lines" or "side tracks" in evolution.
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