offstage
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Instead of taking the mic as planned, Trump would be whisked offstage by Secret Service agents after shots rang out near the cavernous ballroom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 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
We’re not shielded from the horrors, but they almost always happen offstage, implied or alluded to in the sudden vanishing of a loved one or a mournful reference to a death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 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
Once the microphone was set up, Sherm would run offstage, leaving Em to sing her song.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
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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