offstage
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Instead of taking the mic as planned, Trump would be whisked offstage by U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026
The tales give insight into the lives they live offstage and their perspectives as Asian Americans that inspire so much of their material.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
When he finished, he simply wandered into the darkness offstage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Beneath the sag of the buggy the hooves neatly rapid like the motions of a lady doing embroidery, diminishing without progress like a figure on a treadmill being drawn rapidly offstage.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing offstage
Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Theater - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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