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Discover LudwigThe word "offstage" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to actions or events that occur outside the visible area of a stage in a theater or metaphorically to describe something that is not in the public eye.
Example: "The actor delivered a powerful performance, but his struggles offstage were equally compelling."
Alternatives: "Behind the scenes" or "In the background."
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offstage
adjective
Of, or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
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You were known for being equally wild offstage – did you ever worry the drug stories overshadowed talk about your music?
But spilt blood and guts are what the Greek and Jacobean theatre were all about, with offstage violence and neutralising masks in the former and buckets of red stuff splashing all over the groundlings in the latter.
The pair did not stop singing as Holt was bundled offstage by security guards, but when the cameras cut to Cowell, he had taken his jacket off.
I am bizarrely glad that, when Peter Capaldi comes offstage for his chat with me, he's removed the long scarf in which he'd been bedecked in the manner of a criminal professor.
Spectators remember Antony as quiet and awkward offstage but mesmerising when he was singing.
Nothing offstage was quite real to him: "We only lived when we danced," he said of himself and Fonteyn.
I have long been a proponent of the idea that the true grunt work of keeping criminals away from airplanes takes place well offstage.
Offstage, other regulators are negotiating still stiffer penalties.It is not only JPMorgan Chase's shareholders that have already suffered.
"A wingman", sniffs Ines Sabalic, a columnist.In this section Barack, Dmitry and (offstage) Vladimir Not captivating now Of human superbondage Two-tier flexibility Borisov's turn The dilemmas of Diocletian A Belgian national champion Reprints Related items Croatia and Europe: A Balkan state in balkApr 16th 2009There is no underestimating the task she faces.
In the final moments, heavy footsteps are audible offstage.
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(Lange 2002, 418) The counterfactual supposition above refers to a parameter or variable that lies 'offstage', as Lange (2000, 232) formulates the issue.
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