Offered
Staged
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Near the end of The Roman Republic, once during the Lupercalia festival, dictator Gaius Julius Caesar was offered, in a semi-staged and semi-serious way, a laurel "crown" by Mark Antony to show that he was worthy of being made king.
Source: Offered the Crown -
It was just a staged production number, but an episode of The Muppet Show had Janice offered up as a sacrifice to some stone idol that she stalled by singing "A Little Help From My Friends" until she could be rescued.
Source: Human Sacrifice - General Grievous's backstory is given in the Star Wars Legends book Labyrinth of Evil: To put him in debt to the Confederacy and make him even more dangerous, Count Dooku staged a non-lethal shuttle crash, then offered to rebuild him as a cyborg in exchange for his service.
Source: Make It Look Like an Accident
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Staged and Offered. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/offered/staged
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