How to Use beside the point in a Sentence
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Whether consumers remember all five mechanisms is almost beside the point.
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Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2026
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Whether someone supports the Black Lions or finds their armed patrols unsettling is beside the point.
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George A. Mocsary,
The Conversation,
7 July 2026
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Of course, given the loose relationship between scholarship and Burroughs’ uses of it, all that may be beside the point for anyone reading his novels.
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Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
21 July 2026
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Today, those specific discs serve as an accidental record of a pivotal moment in Hollywood, and whether their narrative content ever deserves the public’s attention again is arguably beside the point.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
10 July 2026
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That technical emphasis became central to the legal strategy at the Cincinnati trial, where the defense argued that subject matter was beside the point and the art lay entirely in composition.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 July 2026
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Questions about the film’s treatment of race sparked by the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra are largely beside the point, according to Zacharia.
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Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
22 July 2026
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Given Holzinger’s notoriety, and her own ironic relationship to extremes, her use of trigger warnings, posted before every performance, may seem beside the point, or even hypocritical.
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Lauren Oyler,
New Yorker,
20 July 2026
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Martinez’s lawyer, Chris Parente, said that the body camera footage of what happened to his client is beside the point, which is that officers involved in shootings need to be disciplined by DHS and ultimately prosecuted.
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Michael Loria,
USA Today,
15 July 2026
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