upstage

Experts aren’t too worried that SpaceX is going to upstage Anthropic and OpenAI.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

On the day of the event, she said, she and her friends weren’t there to provoke Kirk, or to upstage him.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025

To upstage the former president, who only recently faced an assassination attempt, is no small feat, said Mr Polyansky.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024

My mother, who I thought had every right under the sun to bask in the glory of my success, was, on the contrary, willing to let my father upstage her.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Her bull-by-the-horns tenacity is seldom more evident than when she upstages Johnny Carson, a spotlight-grabbing moment that foreshadows her future career as a sports broadcaster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

These are projected next to the prints, a juxtaposition that may please soccer fans but somewhat upstages the artworks.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

While the song is a careful international alliance, nothing upstages Rihanna.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

It's not often a taoiseach upstages a US president, but that's what happened last night.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2022

“You should’ve read the article. They say she’s done so much with her part. Even though her scenes are brief, she upstages Douglas Fairbanks!”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Even beyond the supermarket, it was common to use checks at malls, big-box stores or gas stations until the early 2000s, when they were ultimately upstaged by credit and debit cards.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

The singers were mostly upstaged by the visuals; only Ying Fang broke through with a forthright, gorgeously sung Pamina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

But she was upstaged on that front by Pratt, who has portrayed both her and Bass as part of a failed City Hall establishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

But they're all somewhat upstaged by the always delightful Guillermo del Toro.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

This would not be the last time that Wilson would be upstaged by a group of suffragists.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Nakai, 17, set the pace in the short programme on Tuesday, upstaging teammate Kaori Sakamoto, a three-time Olympic medallist.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

In the television studio, Norwegian sports legends rebuked him for upstaging his teammate who won gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

One critic noted that "when Maggie Smith is on the screen, the picture moves," and Burton afterwards teasingly described her upstaging of him as "grand larceny."

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

His ready-made Batman glare at last weekend’s Oscars was meme-worthy, easily upstaging a meager bit by co-presenters Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

However narratively motivated, this upstaging of Barbie effectively suggests that only the Kens of the world need their consciousness raised.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023