Definition of "upstaging" []

• Present participle of upstage. (verb)

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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.’"
• "There is no need to manufacture any theme with regard to Palin "upstaging" "John Bush", just let it play out as is."
• "I mean, this guy held a press conference when the President was just about to make a big speech, kind of upstaging him."