as in offering
to bring before the public in performance or exhibition
staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year
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Jones spoke with Variety about Maeve and Robbie’s family dynamic, how Robbie’s death affects Maeve throughout the series finale and staging the final fight scene with Jayson, the Dark Heart final boss (Sam Keeley).
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Leia Mendoza, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
The first major Frankenstein film liberally adapts the source material, but in lieu of staging the novel as written, James Whale leans into expressionistic production design and Gothic spectacle.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Saft was thirty, living for the first time on his own, and the apartment became his testing ground for staging tricks.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Nurses are represented by the Sharp Professional Nurses Network, which is an affiliate of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, the same group staging the Kaiser strike.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
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Leia Mendoza, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
The first major Frankenstein film liberally adapts the source material, but in lieu of staging the novel as written, James Whale leans into expressionistic production design and Gothic spectacle.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Saft was thirty, living for the first time on his own, and the apartment became his testing ground for staging tricks.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Nurses are represented by the Sharp Professional Nurses Network, which is an affiliate of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, the same group staging the Kaiser strike.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
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Buyers fought over a limited supply, with those offering higher down payments and higher offers ultimately being favored by the market.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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But now some of Wall Street’s billionaires—even ones who backed candidates running against Mamdani—are offering their help in light of his win.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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The true-crime trappings offered a pointed tool for presenting evidence that contradicted the husbands’ oblivious assertions.—
Paula Mejía,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
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Outside of presenting to Shohei Ohtani — who was going to sign with the Dodgers anyway — and engaging with Trea Turner, the Cubs have avoided almost all of the tip-top free agents in recent years.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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The Chinese leader then toured the vessel, including inspecting the mess hall and giving a trial press of the ship’s catapult button, according to CCTV.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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At Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday, shareholders voted in favor of giving CEO Musk a gargantuan, record-shattering pay package that could give him stock worth $1 trillion after several years.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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China last tested its ICBM force in September 2024—its first since the 1980s—when a DF-31AG missile carrying a dummy warhead was fired toward international waters in the South Pacific, within the region's nuclear-free zone, according to a Newsweek map.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 29 Starlink satellites toward LEO, where were deployed on schedule about an hour into flight.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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In contrast, humanoids like Tesla’s Optimus and Figure 03 are beginning to demonstrate real-world utility, performing tasks related to cooking and cleaning with growing reliability.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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While rapper GloRilla was performing, someone in the audience threw an object thought to be a bottle at the stage.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Staging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staging. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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