offstage

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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

We’re not shielded from the horrors, but they almost always happen offstage, implied or alluded to in the sudden vanishing of a loved one or a mournful reference to a death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

In Suntory, there was no room for the offstage brass to be anywhere but offstage.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

The final scene is a reprise of the beginning, showing Springsteen coming offstage after a show and expressing to his manager that it’s good to be back.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

After I was rushed offstage by Chief Crowe, she instructed two ladies in gray suits to bring me to a door marked Conference Room.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston