dress rehearsal
noun
1
: a full rehearsal (as of a play) in costume and with stage properties shortly before the first performance
2
: a practice exercise for something to come : dry run
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But a subsequent meeting in his office each week, in the ninety minutes between the dress rehearsal and the live show, is when Michaels displays his superpowers.
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Back in Michaels’s Studio 60–esque office between dress rehearsal and the live show, Michaels asked what Bargatze was thinking.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
At the rate humanity continues to spew greenhouse gases, all that could be just a dress rehearsal.
—Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Carvey's details of the lines cut from the dress rehearsal version imply that what fans saw on air that night was, in fact, a live sketch.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Back in Michaels’s Studio 60–esque office between dress rehearsal and the live show, Michaels asked what Bargatze was thinking.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
At the rate humanity continues to spew greenhouse gases, all that could be just a dress rehearsal.
—Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Carvey's details of the lines cut from the dress rehearsal version imply that what fans saw on air that night was, in fact, a live sketch.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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