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- verb Present participle of
upstage .
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Examples
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According to critic Ian Hamilton ‘To hear them chuckling over her cute spiritual despairs was a fine bonus for her old age, and she took particular pleasure in upstaging the beatniks at the avant-garde poetry rallies she for some reason kept getting invited to throughout the 1960s.’
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According to critic Ian Hamilton ‘To hear them chuckling over her cute spiritual despairs was a fine bonus for her old age, and she took particular pleasure in upstaging the beatniks at the avant-garde poetry rallies she for some reason kept getting invited to throughout the 1960s.’
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I mean, this guy held a press conference when the President was just about to make a big speech, kind of upstaging him.
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I mean, this guy held a press conference when the president was just about to make a big speech, kind of upstaging him.
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There is no need to manufacture any theme with regard to Palin "upstaging" "John Bush", just let it play out as is.
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The actual Sarah Palin making the much-anticipated debut last night on "Saturday Night Live," and kind of upstaging -- obviously this was all scripted, but kind of upstaging Tina Fey.
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While some criticism was leveled at the singer for "upstaging" the president (and one suspects the real complaint was that she gave the first lady competition on the fashion front), the hat was a huge success.
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Judge orders promoter to pay R&B singer for 'upstaging' R. Kelly
MTV UK 2008
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"Inside its relentless alienation the bleak compositions of its ruined and soulless landscapes become isolating and yet strangely elegiac; a hypnotic and intimate embrace relating image to language to sound, with no one expression upstaging the other.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"Inside its relentless alienation the bleak compositions of its ruined and soulless landscapes become isolating and yet strangely elegiac; a hypnotic and intimate embrace relating image to language to sound, with no one expression upstaging the other.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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