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a short performance to show the talents of someone (such as an actor or a musician) who is being considered for a role in a play, a position in an orchestra, etc.
Auditions will be held next week for the spring musical. He went to an audition for a new TV show.
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Recent Examples of audition
Last week’s auditions included Lanii, who grew up singing on the balcony of her Arizona apartment complex because her dad was so convinced the world would love her voice and told the judges her father had been hospitalized with liver failure after years of addiction.
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Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 16 Feb. 2026
The Rangers moved Marcus Semien, who had held the spot from 2022-24, down in the order after an awful first month and then tried a lot of auditions.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
Sarah Pidgeon, meanwhile, emerged as an immediate frontrunner to play Carolyn from her first audition tape.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
Crime 101 kind of doubles as an audition for that imaginary reboot.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
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Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 16 Feb. 2026
The Rangers moved Marcus Semien, who had held the spot from 2022-24, down in the order after an awful first month and then tried a lot of auditions.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
Sarah Pidgeon, meanwhile, emerged as an immediate frontrunner to play Carolyn from her first audition tape.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
Crime 101 kind of doubles as an audition for that imaginary reboot.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for audition
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Most consequentially, Adams, in a bid to improve equity, permanently scrapped the high-stakes qualifying exam in favor of the current, somewhat free-for-all process in which pre-K teachers can nominate an unlimited number of their students, who are then entered into a (now larger) lottery.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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Medical schools must be accredited for graduates to enter residency programs, and law schools traditionally needed accreditation from the American Bar Association for graduates to sit for most state bar exams.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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The Caucasian couple realized the baby was not of the same race, and genetic tests ordered by Score and Mills confirmed the baby was not their biological child.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tupay and other plus-size park content creators put those resources to the test, to see how plus-size friendly Epic Universe can be.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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Frederick Wiseman, the pioneering documentary filmmaker whose penetrating, observational depictions of public institutions raised ethical issues and provoked social examination, has died.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Boyne refused to submit to examination by state mental health professionals and fired the lawyers.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
16 Feb. 2026
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Her bronze medal final is incredibly close, but Lemley goes big on the jumps, and that's enough to edge out Perrine Laffont for bronze.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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Kauf, a 29-year-old Colorado native, raced against 2022 individual Olympic champion Jakara Anthony of Australia in the final.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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The students will soon take an advanced placement test with the chance to earn college credit.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2025
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Diggins recalled taking a Japanese placement test for Doshisha International School in Kyoto.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
8 May 2025
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