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backdrop

noun as in setting for something

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Rust depicts the manhunt for grandfather and grandson amidst a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and tumbleweed dirt towns.

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Anthony De Mello, the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India, announced the team with a backdrop of a map of undivided India, proclaiming that the team would represent all of India.

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These departures come against the backdrop of a series of controversies since Ben Sulayem became president.

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With this backdrop, Wales fans turned up more than hope than expectation as Gatland made four changes from the side that lost to Fiji.

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The show was in development over the last five years, against the backdrop of events like the Black Lives Matter protests.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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