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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
As a kid, I was ensorcelled by The American President, Sorkin’s 1995 film, the dress rehearsal for The West Wing four years later, and the beginning of his lifelong flirtation with civic virtue — and, inadvertently, my profession studying presidents.
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Alexis Coe, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
After she was sent to the hospital during the show's dress rehearsal, Braxton was forced to bow out of the competition in 2015 due to blood clots in her lungs.
—Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
On July 31, for example, the crew entered their spacecraft in their flight suits for a multiday training — a dress rehearsal of sorts — at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
This one felt like a preseason dress rehearsal game for the Heat, which tightened its rotation to nine players for Friday’s first half.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
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Alexis Coe, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
After she was sent to the hospital during the show's dress rehearsal, Braxton was forced to bow out of the competition in 2015 due to blood clots in her lungs.
—Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
On July 31, for example, the crew entered their spacecraft in their flight suits for a multiday training — a dress rehearsal of sorts — at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
This one felt like a preseason dress rehearsal game for the Heat, which tightened its rotation to nine players for Friday’s first half.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
Noun
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Software development offers a clear preview of what's coming.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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The week wraps up with the Dallas Men’s Show, which opens with a preview on Friday and runs through Monday.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
20 Jan. 2026
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Plemons admits Lanthimos’ rehearsal process initially left him lost.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
12 Jan. 2026
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His father, who played in a party band, occasionally invited him to rehearsals, where Kwasniewski-Kelvin, then 12, would solo over the group’s blues and pop jams.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
12 Jan. 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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His parents recalled playfully hitting him with pool noodles during his progressions, a routine that eventually drew in a growing group of neighborhood kids for daily practices.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Legal observers often attend police actions to document and monitor law enforcement behavior − a common practice used by activists from the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s to Northern Ireland during The Troubles.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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