Definition of "center stage" []

• The center of a theater stage. (noun)
• A position of great prominence or importance. (noun)

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• "My bailiff stood center stage and announced, Case 64333A; the State versus Lisa Jennings, prostitution, and possession of drugs."
• "I was afraid that I would be what novelist Frederick Exley was afraid of being, and what drove him to alcoholic insanity—a fan, someone to sit on the sidelines and cheer for those who take the center stage in life."
• "Then in the new silence he went to the Struan column and wrote the figure clearly, conscious that he was on center stage now."