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sidetrack

 verb
     
side‧track [transitive usually passive]
1 to make someone stop doing what they should be doing, or stop talking about what they started talking about, by making them interested in something else:
Don't get sidetracked by the audience's questions.
2 American English to delay or stop the progress of something:
An effort to improve security was sidetracked by budget problems.
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