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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A crisis in the family makes you realise the old adage that life is not a dress rehearsal .
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I want this bridge to be in every way a dress rehearsal for that.
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In this light of evolutionary time, ecology can be seen as one long dress rehearsal .
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Is the press going to be invited in to take photographs at the dress rehearsal ?
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On the Monday night the orchestra arrived ready for the dress rehearsal of Gypsy Baron the next morning.
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There will be an open dress rehearsal at 7 p. m. Thursday, August 7.
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This was the last opportunity for a dress rehearsal in the New York Preview theatre.