rehearsal

Example Sentences

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The group A game between Canada and the USA is widely expected to be a dress rehearsal for next week's gold medal match given their dominance over the rest of the world.

From BBC

The mishaps during a run-through that the US space agency calls a "wet dress rehearsal" dashed hopes that the mission around the Moon could launch as soon as Sunday.

From Barron's

There’s a metaphor about a trapped bird in her rehearsal space that doesn’t land and a weak attempt to juice tension that the label might actually prefer her dead.

From Los Angeles Times

A few dozen men and women from the Government Code and Cypher School gathered for a sort of dress rehearsal.

From Literature

“Carrie, my manager, she had told me, ‘Oh, there’s this new Japanese group that wants you to choreograph for them,’ ” she says over the phone during a break in rehearsals for Lopez’s Las Vegas residency.

From Los Angeles Times