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But she walked offstage to a new jingle that went, “At my Tennessean Truck Stop, everyone belongs.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

When most of the characters are shuffled offstage, for instance, Quincy unsurprisingly makes a move on Walter—most unfeminist behavior!—that is, also unsurprisingly, witnessed by Lyssa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Also new to the story is Independence, Kan., itself, which in the book is an offstage place to which Pa will sometimes go to fetch necessities, disappearing from the story until he returns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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

Instead, he remained offstage, leaving the campaign of condemnation to Karl Compton, who was serving as scientific advisor to the occupation forces and publicly labeled the cyclotron destruction “an act of utter stupidity.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik