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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
This test served as a dress rehearsal for the lunar rocket’s engine power.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
Remember those 'dress rehearsals' in the third game?
—Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
This is really a dress rehearsal for Taiwan.
—NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
His presence at the helm is fading, and the mandarins of the system may use the crisis as a dress rehearsal to secure the passing of the torch to the next generation when the transition finally occurs.
—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2025
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
Remember those 'dress rehearsals' in the third game?
—Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
This is really a dress rehearsal for Taiwan.
—NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
His presence at the helm is fading, and the mandarins of the system may use the crisis as a dress rehearsal to secure the passing of the torch to the next generation when the transition finally occurs.
—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
Noun
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The dueling, hourslong hearings on Thursday offered a preview of the upcoming floor debates, which will take shape in the House and Senate over the next week.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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Armani had missed Milan Fashion Week in June 2025 for the first time during the previews of Spring-Summer 2026 menswear to recover from an undisclosed condition.—
Merle Ginsberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Feldman, who has been taking part in daily rehearsals with Johnson, explained that his previous experience with dancing significantly differed from learning to master ballroom dance under his partner's guidance.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Practices are held for two hours every Monday, and quartets have additional rehearsals on their own time.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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UAGateway’s principal, Kristina Dvorakovskaya, had conducted a dry run in which the staff figured out how to, in an emergency, redistribute 400 phones in about five minutes.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Israel has intermittently launched such long-range airstrikes since July 2024, after a Houthi drone hit Tel Aviv, in combat missions that, especially in retrospect, served as dry runs for the June air war against Iran.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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For example, the value of the Dallas Cowboys excludes The Star, the team's 91-acre headquarters, practice facility and commercial real estate.—
Michael Ozanian,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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Wednesday night gave them plenty of practice at what that looks like, leaving behind a message after yet another loss that has been echoed too often during this flummoxing stretch.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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