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stage setting

[steyj set-ing] / ˈsteɪdʒ ˌsɛt ɪŋ /


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While you're at home watching the introductory videos known as postcards, dozens of people swarm the stage, setting the scene for whatever comes next.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

But it might not be too soon to dream about a share of the world soccer stage setting up in Seattle, five years hence.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

More specifically, all the world is stage setting — for Taylor Swift.

From The Verge • Jan. 14, 2018

Every couple minutes, a flood of ice skaters or animals pours across the stage, setting up the next death-defying number.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2017

I test this theory out on Isabelle: that our job is to constantly re-create the stage setting in which women can act out.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich