dress rehearsal
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Thirty years later, Steven Spielberg would bring Pakula’s idea to fruition with “The Post,” about Graham’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a dress rehearsal for the even higher stakes of Watergate a year later.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The Nasa team said they were not going to attempt another so-called "wet dress rehearsal" once the rocket had been rolled out to the launchpad.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
Potentially someone who watched the dress rehearsal of the show just a few hours earlier.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Over the next several days, engineers and technicians will focus on readying Artemis II for a wet dress rehearsal.
From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026
They weren’t the final, final books, but Jack had said these advance copies would be like a dress rehearsal before the official performance.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
