upstage
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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
To upstage the former president, who only recently faced an assassination attempt, is no small feat, said Mr Polyansky.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2024
Should Yamamoto announce a decision before Thursday at 3 p.m., the news would not upstage Ohtani’s formal introduction as a Dodger.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023
He sat downstage, center, for only a second before glancing over his shoulder, getting up, and walking a few steps upstage to line up with the other players.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
Vocabulary lists containing upstage
Academy Awards, List 2
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Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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