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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
Jost asked him to wear really short shorts and Ferrell agreed — something no one saw until the night of, since there was no dress rehearsal.
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Emily Longeretta, Variety, 16 June 2025
The tournament takes place across 11 different US venues in what is effectively a dress rehearsal for next year’s World Cup.
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will host both semi-finals and the final.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The Club World Cup is considered in many ways to be a dress rehearsal for the big event, the 2026 World Cup to be hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
—Anne M. Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
This flight and the previous three have been dress rehearsals both for crews and for Axiom’s onsite mission control, providing critical experience working in orbit and managing activities from the ground.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 June 2025
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Emily Longeretta, Variety, 16 June 2025
The tournament takes place across 11 different US venues in what is effectively a dress rehearsal for next year’s World Cup.
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will host both semi-finals and the final.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The Club World Cup is considered in many ways to be a dress rehearsal for the big event, the 2026 World Cup to be hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.
—Anne M. Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
This flight and the previous three have been dress rehearsals both for crews and for Axiom’s onsite mission control, providing critical experience working in orbit and managing activities from the ground.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
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The longest Prime Day ever is around the corner — but Amazon is giving us a preview of the stellar discounts to come.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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Earlier this month, the newspaper’s 2025 summer interns looked ahead to the next federal holiday, gathering at the Sacramento Fire Department’s Station 19 in Point West for a preview of some of the region’s legally available fireworks.—
Ethan Wolin,
Sacbee.com,
28 June 2025
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Sabbath shared a candid snap from rehearsals last week in which Ward, Butler and Osbourne were caught smiling and waving at the camera from a couch.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
30 June 2025
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The four new plays presented this year through public readings have their first readings on the first day of their workshop, with just four hours of rehearsal, then work for four days until the next reading.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
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If the San Diego Street Race comes to fruition for 2026, whether as a competitive event or supplanting Chicago, the forecast for a dry run is likely much brighter.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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And prosecutors say that's important, because during that time — a month before the murders — was Chandler's dry run for the killings.—
Ruth Chenetz,
CBS News,
31 May 2025
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All three teams will also be investing more money through building practice facilities and other such amenities.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 June 2025
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Topics to be covered include commodity conservation practices, adding a rotation (winter wheat), diversifying and building market channels for diversified crops.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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