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

Jokic looked on course to upstage his American opponents, playing a key role as Serbia, who led by as many as 17 points, stifled them in a dominant first half.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2024

“Shogun’s” Tadanobu Asano could upstage his better-known rivals as the wily Yabushige.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 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