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upstage

verb as in steal the show

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Darnold leads the league with 11 touchdown passes and would like nothing better than to stick one on his former side - and upstage headline-maker Rodgers in the process.

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One critic noted that "when Maggie Smith is on the screen, the picture moves," and Burton afterwards teasingly described her upstaging of him as "grand larceny."

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The venue where former Prime Minister Liz Truss was upstaged in a politically-motivated stunt says it has a theory about how activists pulled it off.

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To upstage the former president, who only recently faced an assassination attempt, is no small feat, said Mr Polyansky.

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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.

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

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