offstage
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Much will come out in the exchanges between the accidental roommates that alters our perceptions of both, as well as our view of those offstage personages, living and dead.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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
Tsuruko, the eldest, stays largely offstage but exerts a crucial, conservative influence on family affairs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Yeah, the crowd loves it, but I go offstage and I’m not looking for the comments saying, “It was so funny.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025
Another woman enters from offstage, and I see it now.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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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