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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
This lower level of exposure is a dress rehearsal for what comes next — the commercial flight to Seattle.
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Evan Roberts, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
The February attempt, though, was taken off the board when NASA’s first wet dress rehearsal ran into cryogenic liquid hydrogen leaks into the SLS core stage during tanking.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
Helium did not flow properly during normal operations and reconfigurations that followed the wet dress rehearsal that concluded on Thursday.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
Two weeks later, mission team members conducted a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), a two-day-long practice run of the procedures that precede launch.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Evan Roberts, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
The February attempt, though, was taken off the board when NASA’s first wet dress rehearsal ran into cryogenic liquid hydrogen leaks into the SLS core stage during tanking.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
Helium did not flow properly during normal operations and reconfigurations that followed the wet dress rehearsal that concluded on Thursday.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
Two weeks later, mission team members conducted a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), a two-day-long practice run of the procedures that precede launch.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
Noun
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The slow drip restoring gun rights is a preview of what the department says could be as many as 1 million annual applications under a new protocol proposed last summer.—
Nick Penzenstadler,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Death of a Salesman, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, played its first two Broadway previews last week to 100 percent capacity at the Winter Garden Theatre.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Franza just wrapped up her final rehearsal for the annual fundraiser for breast cancer research.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2026
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This is one rehearsal of many as the troupe plans to meet for eight hours, five days a week, leading up to the final show.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In short, the conflict contained a dry run for a potential chemical attack.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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In retrospect, Kinetta feels like a dry run for Lanthimos, with all the droll affectation of his later provocations but little of the allegorical power or lunatic comedy that would distinguish them.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With a fine equivalent to a few days’ revenue and some marginal changes to its business practices, Live Nation will, more or less, plow ahead as the dominant force in live music.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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The Panthers then signed him off the Cowboys’ practice squad in November 2025.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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