0 past simple and past participle of sideline
1 If a sports player is sidelined they are prevented from playing or competing, and can only watch:
He was sidelined after criticizing the policy.
Johnson has been sidelined through injury.
This has focused attention on a variety of topics that were sidelined in much of the scholarship between the 1950s and 1980s, including urban culture, business history, and foreign relations.
Sidelined school-based experiences, the significance of youth ensembles, and parents who deterred an educational career were a formula for a vocational route towards music performance rather than pedagogy.
Were this to occur, industry and environment discourses could be sidelined anyway and made virtually irrelevant.
In any case, since the research evidence has so far been ignored or at least sidelined, repetition is required.
But as bioethicists have risen to prominence, many scholars in these other fields have found themselves sidelined.
But worn by older women, these pale, grey, beige non-colours suggest social retirement, or a withdrawn and sidelined status.
The ontology problem has been largely sidelined and so has the information discovery problem.
We hence participate in the debate, but if our convictions are being sidelined, we do not demand a special settlement for ourselves.
