dry run
noun
Examples of dry run in a Sentence
We did a dry run of the experiment.
After several dry runs, she was ready to give the speech.
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The younger Harrison has already experienced this Indiana trip, a dry run of sorts.
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Doug Haller, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
UAGateway’s principal, Kristina Dvorakovskaya, had conducted a dry run in which the staff figured out how to, in an emergency, redistribute 400 phones in about five minutes.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
Israel has intermittently launched such long-range airstrikes since July 2024, after a Houthi drone hit Tel Aviv, in combat missions that, especially in retrospect, served as dry runs for the June air war against Iran.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
In March, the team did a large-scale dry run of the dispersal at an open air testing facility on a naval base in New Jersey.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
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Doug Haller, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
UAGateway’s principal, Kristina Dvorakovskaya, had conducted a dry run in which the staff figured out how to, in an emergency, redistribute 400 phones in about five minutes.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
Israel has intermittently launched such long-range airstrikes since July 2024, after a Houthi drone hit Tel Aviv, in combat missions that, especially in retrospect, served as dry runs for the June air war against Iran.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
In March, the team did a large-scale dry run of the dispersal at an open air testing facility on a naval base in New Jersey.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Dry run.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dry%20run. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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