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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
But if this had been a dress rehearsal for the Big One, the Bay Area’s crisis plans had flopped.
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Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
While Philadelphia’s Club World Cup schedule may be over, this summer proved to be a positive dress rehearsal for the city’s hosting duties for the 2026 World Cup.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 4 July 2025
The rest of the world might call it a dress rehearsal.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
The postponement could also be due to an issue discovered during Friday's wet dress rehearsal, after which the Starship was destacked.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
While Philadelphia’s Club World Cup schedule may be over, this summer proved to be a positive dress rehearsal for the city’s hosting duties for the 2026 World Cup.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 4 July 2025
The rest of the world might call it a dress rehearsal.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
The postponement could also be due to an issue discovered during Friday's wet dress rehearsal, after which the Starship was destacked.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
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Summer is ratcheting down and the only major studio wide entry this box office frame is Universal’s Bob Odenkirk action movie Nobody 2, which did $1.3 million from previews Thursday at 2,800 theaters that began at 2 p.m.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
15 Aug. 2025
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As scientists predict that the country could become uninhabitable by 2050 due to rising sea levels, these unsettling images offer a preview of what that future may hold if the climate crisis isn’t promptly addressed.—
Emily Scolnick,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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Narvel Blackstock previously served as Clarkson’s manager, and the singer and her future husband first met at a rehearsal for the Academy of Country Music Awards in May 2006, when Blackstock was still married to ex-wife Melissa Ashworth.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Suddenly, Amador – a popular former principal dancer who had been the company’s rehearsal director since 2020 – was thrust into the position of interim artistic director.—
David Lyman,
The Enquirer,
7 Aug. 2025
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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,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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In addition to this tariff dry run giving him a better understanding of the limits of executive trade authority, Ross added that Trump now has the political capital to solidify these policies.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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Quick hits and thoughts as the Dolphins prepare for the third and final week of preseason, culminating in Thursday’s joint practice with the Jaguars in Miami Gardens and Saturday’s preseason finale against Jacksonville at Hard Rock Stadium (7 p.m., CBS 4).—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
17 Aug. 2025
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The Horned Frogs have the next two days off before returning to practice Tuesday.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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