upstage

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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

Stanton: There are hundreds of fireflies in the background, on the video screens, upstage and scattered throughout the house.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

Darnold leads the league with 11 touchdown passes and would like nothing better than to stick one on his former side - and upstage headline-maker Rodgers in the process.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

Harold embraced Gerry, making her face upstage, and the curtain came down.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith