Thesaurus results for AUDITIONS

auditions

noun

plural of audition

as in exams

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 auditions As Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe joined The View Thursday for an interview about his role in the new NBC comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, the superstar cringed when the show cued up a clip of one of his early auditions to play the boy wizard. —

Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026 Psychologists and those who work in youth sports say part of the blame goes to competitions no longer seen as just recreation but auditions for elite travel teams and scholarships. —

Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026 Buckley, who had been rejected from London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama just days before the I’d Do Anything open auditions, was firmly in the latter camp. —

Isobel Lewis, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026 Soon, successful auditions began pulling him off campus, and academics took a backseat. —

Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026 Orlando’s sports future – MLB ambitions, NFL auditions, and the next generation of kids learning class and courage on local ball fields – suggests the city is not finished expanding its sports identity. —

Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026 Anaheim Ballet is offering 2026 summer intensives Anaheim Ballet School’s 2026 summer programs are taking auditions. —

Andrea Manes, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026 This season is not leading to a playoff spot, so the Jets should lean into developmental auditions for players such as Salomonsson, Zhilkin, Lambert, Chibrikov from the trade deadline through the rest of the season. —

Murat Ates, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026 This time, there were no co-host auditions. —

Jim Halterman, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Students’ course materials, assignments and exams were identical across all four sections.

— Shishir Shakya, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
On last year’s STAAR exams, the district posted gains across every subject and grade level except fifth grade math, where the district saw a two-point decline in the percentage of students meeting grade level.

— Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026