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
Yeah, the crowd loves it, but I go offstage and I’m not looking for the comments saying, “It was so funny.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025
I walked offstage and I said to myself, “You don’t have to do it anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Instead, he remained offstage, leaving the campaign of condemnation to Karl Compton, who was serving as scientific advisor to the occupation forces and publicly labeled the cyclotron destruction “an act of utter stupidity.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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