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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
The Dolphins have joint practices against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the team’s third preseason game — the first and only at Hard Rock Stadium — this Saturday at 7 p.m., which Miami will likely use as a dress rehearsal for the regular season.
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Omar Kelly
august 18, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
This test served as a dress rehearsal for the lunar rocket’s engine power.
—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
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Omar Kelly
august 18, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
This test served as a dress rehearsal for the lunar rocket’s engine power.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
Noun
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The Grand Finale plays in Thursday previews before opening in theaters nationwide on Friday.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Just a few weeks after release, Google has pulled the Daily Hub preview from Pixel 10 devices.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Greene leads rehearsals once a week until show time, with cast members running lines, practicing choreography and more.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Sep. 2025
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Pro Kym Johnson wasn't so lucky when her celebrity partner, former NFL star and coach Hines Ward dropped her on her head during a season 12 rehearsal.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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That sentiment even inspired the name of her practice, Nurtured First.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Others have pointed to Biglari’s practice of hanging his portrait in every Steak ‘n Shake location and the chain’s own financial struggles.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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