offstage
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The first lady sat next to the president when the shooting occurred and ducked under a table before she was ushered by security offstage.
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
When he finished, he simply wandered into the darkness offstage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
In Suntory, there was no room for the offstage brass to be anywhere but offstage.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
I drag him offstage, and once we’re behind the curtain, I look him in the eyes and he smiles like he knows what’s about to go down.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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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