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upstage

[uhp-steyj] / ˈʌpˈsteɪdʒ /
VERB
steal the show
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Hoping to upstage Ryder Cup team-mates McIlroy and Rose, Lowry will enter the final round just two back after a rollercoaster 68 that featured a glorious hole-in-one at the sixth.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

On the day of the event, she said, she and her friends weren’t there to provoke Kirk, or to upstage him.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

“Any time Dennis could upstage Mike, he’d do it,” Jardine tells The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

She would support Mark Antony in all he did without trying to control or upstage him.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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