rehearse
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As part of the operation, the carrier will rehearse how an Allied naval force would operate together in the event of a crisis, the Navy said.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Many job seekers are employing artificial intelligence to rehearse asking for a higher salary by using large language models like Claude or ChatGPT to practice a mock negotiation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s like watching stage actors rehearse the same lines they recite every night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
The task required the writers to rehearse for months to map out contingencies and shape character arcs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
For a while he tried to rehearse what he would say when the people had all come.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
She rehearses obsessively at home, cueing up a song, then running into an adjacent room to sing, so she can't cheat on the mixes.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
Now, this documentary is taking viewers behind the scenes with the playwright Jeremy O. Harris as he workshops and rehearses, before ultimately bringing the play to the big stage.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Take an American ballerina, clad in shimmering white, caught in a blur of revolving motion as she rehearses in China.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Alone on his couch, he rehearses the litany of troubles that have led him there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
The group rehearsed “pretty much every night,” performed frequently and promoted itself aggressively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
It found no evidence that the staff in the unit had been trained or had ever rehearsed how to evacuate the ward of newborns, many of whom were premature or "medically fragile".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
A British-born veteran of Vietnam, he concluded after the 1993 bombing that the terrorists would return, and he rigorously rehearsed evacuation plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He had an elaborate pitch, which he painstakingly rehearsed and refined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
The line I rehearsed in the truck is not going to work on her.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
On a clammy late-summer morning in September 2010, full of dread and anxiety, I trudged toward Tabla, rehearsing the message I’d soon deliver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Troops in flashy uniforms have been rehearsing on the White House driveway this week ahead of the welcome ceremony.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Avery, 15, and 14-year-old Manas and their band The Ladies-Men have been rehearsing at the Oh Yeah centre as part of North South Sounds 2026.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
One performer described the worst possible outcome: working all week, staying up all night, writing sketches, rehearsing constantly, and then discovering on Saturday night that you don’t even need hair and makeup.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
They’d been rehearsing for three hours straight and he’d really been hitting the water bowls hard, so he needed to head outside.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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