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dummy run

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noun

  1. a practice or rehearsal; trial run

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Jamison Gibson-Park found Jones while too much of the Wallaby defence bought the dummy run from Tommy Freeman.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2025

Nasa requested a second dummy run be conducted in 2022 to be sure the errors had been corrected.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2024

Take last Friday night, for example, when his dummy run allowed Cengiz Under’s to score in the visitors’ 1-0 win.

From Seattle Times Jan. 13, 2022

And while staff are trained beforehand, the dummy run comes only on the Sunday before the Championships.

From The Guardian Jun. 29, 2017

Confidentially, we had a dummy run before lunchtime.

From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Victor [pseud.] Appleton

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