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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
Swapping out some seals and other work seems to have fixed these issues, according to officials who say that the latest countdown dress rehearsal went smoothly, despite glitches such as a loss of ground communications in the Launch Control Center that forced workers to temporarily use backups.
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
The successful dress rehearsal means astronauts could be two weeks away from venturing to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
Here's everything to know about the wet dress rehearsal, and when NASA is eyeing a potential launch date for Artemis 2.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
But hydrogen leaks were detected during an initial wet dress rehearsal countdown.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
The successful dress rehearsal means astronauts could be two weeks away from venturing to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
Here's everything to know about the wet dress rehearsal, and when NASA is eyeing a potential launch date for Artemis 2.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
But hydrogen leaks were detected during an initial wet dress rehearsal countdown.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
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Anthropic on Friday debuted a new security tool to its Claude model in a limited research preview.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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Victor Wembanyama had 21 points, 17 rebounds and six blocks, Devin Vassell scored 28 and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Detroit Pistons 114-103 in a potential NBA Finals preview Monday night.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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The feature-length documentary includes home videos of McCartney, wife Linda and their children on the family farm in Scotland, footage of early Wings rehearsals and archival photos taken by Linda McCartney – and footage of the other Beatles.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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North Korea has long described the allies ’ joint exercises as invasion rehearsals and used them as a pretext to dial up its own military demonstrations and weapons testing activity.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
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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
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But most leading proprietary AI model providers including Anthropic explicitly ban such practices.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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In October, following the bankruptcies of Tricolor and First Brands, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, pointed to signs that corporate lending practices had grown too lax over the past decade .—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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