stage setting

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While you're at home watching the introductory videos known as postcards, dozens of people swarm the stage, setting the scene for whatever comes next.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

But it might not be too soon to dream about a share of the world soccer stage setting up in Seattle, five years hence.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

Others are built into the movie, like the suspiciously theatrical lighting that makes Jessie’s prison / room look like a stage setting, or the conscious artificiality of the whole story.

From The Verge • Sep. 26, 2017

In song, peat and the moor are the stage setting for many stories of love consummated and love crushed with betrayal.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2017

I test this theory out on Isabelle: that our job is to constantly re-create the stage setting in which women can act out.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich