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"ref": "1987 August 17, “Peace Moves”, in Newsweek, volume 60, number 7, page 1",
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"ref": "1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 22",
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"text": "She only wore that dress to upstage everyone.",
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"ref": "1973, Jerry Vermilye, Cary Grant, New York: Galahad Books, page 56",
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"ref": "1987 August 17, “Peace Moves”, in Newsweek, volume 60, number 7, page 1",
"text": "Ronald Reagan’s peace plan for Nicaragua, which would have worked to his domestic political advantage even if it had failed, is upstaged by a surprise initiative by five Central American countries.",
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"ref": "1996, Dave Anderson, The story of the Olympics, New York: W. Morrow, page 10",
"text": "The romance and spectacle of the Olympics have been upstaged by the reality of the Olympics; both the Summer Games and the Winter Games are now as much big business as they are sport.",
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"word": "eclipse"
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"word": "overshadow"
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"To treat snobbishly."
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"word": "downstage"
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"ref": "1999, “Mismanagement of ovarian cancer by laparoscopy and laparotomy”, in Laparoscopic surgery in gynaecological oncology, Blackwell Science",
"text": "Almost one-third of patients were upstaged after re-exploration, three-quarters of whom actually had stage III disease.",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to draw attention away from others",
"word": "die Schau stehlen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to draw attention away from others",
"word": "in den Schatten stellen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to draw attention away from others",
"word": "eclipsar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to draw attention away from others",
"word": "hacer sombra"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to draw attention away from others",
"word": "opacar"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to draw attention away from others",
"word": "ensombrecer"
}
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"word": "upstage"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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