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Recent Examples of dress rehearsal
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.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
But, in the middle of dress rehearsal, one of the bumpers had fallen off.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
But according to the Mean Girls star, the animals were even more badly behaved during the dress rehearsal.
—John Russell, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Comedian Dave Chappelle allegedly mocked a nonbinary Saturday Night Live writer during a dress rehearsal for a 2022 episode of the long-running variety show, according to a new report from Vulture that was based on multiple, largely anonymous interviews with associates of creator Lorne Michaels.
—James Factora, Them, 12 Feb. 2025
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
But, in the middle of dress rehearsal, one of the bumpers had fallen off.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
But according to the Mean Girls star, the animals were even more badly behaved during the dress rehearsal.
—John Russell, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Comedian Dave Chappelle allegedly mocked a nonbinary Saturday Night Live writer during a dress rehearsal for a 2022 episode of the long-running variety show, according to a new report from Vulture that was based on multiple, largely anonymous interviews with associates of creator Lorne Michaels.
—James Factora, Them, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dress rehearsal
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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
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The Caps, on the other hand, got a preview of life without Thompson down the stretch.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Other times, though, the detours seem to be engineered solely for the purpose of indulging Fielder’s weirdest whims (and, of course, spending HBO’s money on ornate and bizarre rehearsal sets).—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The stage manager is responsible for the smooth and efficient running of the production, from rehearsals to performances.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
20 Apr. 2025
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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
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Yet Saboteur never plays like a dry run for North by Northwest.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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While some partake in more traditional practices like prayer or mass on Easter Sunday, others enjoy a more secular interpretation with baskets, egg decorating, egg hunting, and of course, the Easter Bunny.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The practice allowed the meditators to view their devotion as closely tied to Magdalene.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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