onstage
adverb or adjective
on·stage
ˈȯn-ˈstāj 
ˈän-,
-ˌstāj
: on or onto a stage : on a part of the stage visible to the audience
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Tyla performs onstage during the 2024 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
With their headlining set on Saturday, pop-punkers All Time Low fully brought Warped Tour back to high school, complete with a marching band and cheerleading squad to join them onstage.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
The stage crasher then began to perform the floss dance move before security rushed onstage to escort him off.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 June 2025
And while there is no arguing with that fact, performances of plays have been recorded onstage before, and are being so now.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
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Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
With their headlining set on Saturday, pop-punkers All Time Low fully brought Warped Tour back to high school, complete with a marching band and cheerleading squad to join them onstage.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
The stage crasher then began to perform the floss dance move before security rushed onstage to escort him off.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 June 2025
And while there is no arguing with that fact, performances of plays have been recorded onstage before, and are being so now.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for onstage
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“Onstage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onstage. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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onstage
adverb or adjective
on·stage
ˈȯn-ˈstāj
ˈän-
: on or onto a stage : on a part of the stage visible to the audience
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