dress rehearsal

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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal The second week was reserved for tech and a dress rehearsal. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025 Hartford Courant While neither UConn nor BU will be playing for their postseason lives, this tournament figures to pack the Garden and serve as a dress rehearsal for the NCAA Tournament. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025 During the Guys & Dolls dress rehearsal in Sydney, Australia on March 18, Annie Aitken and Cody Simpson stare off into the distance together. Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Hartford Courant While neither UConn nor BU will be playing for their postseason lives, this tournament figures to pack the Garden and serve as a dress rehearsal for the NCAA Tournament. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dress rehearsal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
Noun
  • This is a preview of The 1600—Tap here to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The Caps, on the other hand, got a preview of life without Thompson down the stretch.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The night before the Rio concert, the pop star surprised beachgoers on Copacabana by taking the stage for a rehearsal.
    Christopher Ulloa, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
  • During a rehearsal in New Mexico on Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin’s gun discharged a live bullet, killing 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Presented as an academic study of destructively codependent telepaths, Stereo is basically a dry run to the later Scanners, emphasis on the dry.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The amount of work this takes to pull off is staggering to think about — the preceding episodes feel almost like dry runs to prove something as complicated as this could actually be pulled off.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Everything about the transition is overwhelming, from the skill of the other players on the court to the length of practices, so Rivers said she’s tried to be patient with her progress early on.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2025
  • Shamanism, anthropologist Manvir Singh’s debut, traces the evolution of the titular spiritual practice.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 1 May 2025

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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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