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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rehearse.

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Examples

  • The closest she comes to re-creating her character's artistry is a scene in which Duncan "rehearses" a new piece by closing her eyes and gently swaying while Alexandros plays a Chopin etude.

    Chicago Reader 2009

  • A work in progress: Ricky Gervais "rehearses" for a tour

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • Clint Eastwood does only one take, and never rehearses.

    Karin Badt: Cecile De France on Clint Eastwood and the Dardenne Brothers Karin Badt 2011

  • Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal Choreographer Miro Magloire, right, rehearses with dancer Elizabeth Brown for a piece to be paired with new music.

    New Adventures in Composition Pia Catton 2011

  • Everybody has to play a version of the counterfactual game at one point or another, but the more this book rehearses the dropped catches and untaken roads and other metaphorical mixtures, the more it succeeds in showing that the pursuit has hit abruptly diminishing returns.

    Lost in the Levant 2010

  • Clint Eastwood does only one take, and never rehearses.

    Karin Badt: Cecile De France on Clint Eastwood and the Dardenne Brothers Karin Badt 2011

  • He rehearses earnings calls and takes copious notes during meetings.

    Scandal Clouds James Murdoch's Path Russell Adams 2011

  • In today's pictures, an Indian wedding begins in New Delhi, a river of goo covers a highway in Pennsylvania, a ballerina rehearses in Spain, and more.

    Photos of the Day: Nov. 23 2011

  • Daniel Barenboim rehearses for his free performance at Tate Modern, on the bridge of the Turbine Hall.

    Daniel Barenboim - review 2011

  • Rashid Khalidi's recent op-ed in the NYT, "What You Don't Know About Gaza," rehearses many of the points made in Siegman's article, but is worth reading nonetheless.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ilya 2009

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