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
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
During the climactic moment, a giant load-in door in the upstage wall slowly rose like a curtain onto West 45th Street, which pulsated with color and life.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2023
As the most famous, and controversial, woman in America, she did not want to draw attention to herself and upstage Marian Anderson.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing upstage
Academy Awards, List 2
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Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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