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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
Dara performing during a dress rehearsal in Vienna on Saturday.
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Andrew Jones, NBC news, 16 May 2026
Inter had beaten Lazio 3-0 on Saturday in Serie A in a dress rehearsal for Wednesday’s cup final in the same stadium in Rome.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
The most important test was a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), a two-day-long practice run of the procedures leading up to launch.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 May 2026
When Taylor Swift brought her Eras tour to SoFi in the summer of 2023, LA Metro used that as something of a dress rehearsal for the World Cup, expanding late service and adding free shuttles from nearby train stations.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Andrew Jones, NBC news, 16 May 2026
Inter had beaten Lazio 3-0 on Saturday in Serie A in a dress rehearsal for Wednesday’s cup final in the same stadium in Rome.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
The most important test was a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), a two-day-long practice run of the procedures leading up to launch.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 May 2026
When Taylor Swift brought her Eras tour to SoFi in the summer of 2023, LA Metro used that as something of a dress rehearsal for the World Cup, expanding late service and adding free shuttles from nearby train stations.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
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Trysta Krick and Vaughn Dalzell preview Game 3 of the NBA Finals and debate if the Spurs can get back in the series after surprisingly going down 2-0 to the New York Knicks.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
9 June 2026
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See video … LISTEN Tune in for a preview of the historic 2026 FIFA World Cup and the global stakes behind the tournament’s kickoff.—
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FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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These rehearsals, still widely unknown and spanning from late 1943 through April 1944, involved dangerous friendly fire and suffered from serious coordination errors, resulting in the real-life deaths of at least 700 American and British soldiers.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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The timing was already brutal because Travolta needed to finish the film in time to begin rehearsals for Grease opposite Olivia Newton-John.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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The makers did two test runs with a replica of identical size and weight to the tapestry, one in a Mercedes truck from Bayeux to London, in a secret February dry run, another in public in April.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
4 June 2026
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One fear is that these pipeline problems are not merely a Golden State issue—that California’s primary is a (very) dry run for the Democrats’ path to higher leadership, and specifically the great big beautiful office that will open in 2029.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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So much of it comes down to economics, to not being freed from unethical labor practices.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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Several other unions also filed unfair labor practices over the unilateral nature of the policy change, which was originally set to be implemented on July 1, 2025.—
Kassia Bonesteel,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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