mannequin
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Bill Gates’s employees have spent years carefully cultivating his image—down to keeping a custom-size mannequin to test his outfits for different days of the week.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
She spends much of her time practicing on mannequin heads in her childhood room.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
The shouts — a husky voice with a Southern surf bro twang — echoed in the dojo as a 4-year-old blond boy with a headband reading “Lil’ Dragon” punched up at a scowling mannequin.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
Students at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology carefully draped a mannequin in traditional Korean funeral cloth, smoothing the fabric as if over real skin, before gently lowering it into a coffin.
From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025
As expressionless as the time she was a store mannequin, she sat in the wagon on a sawed-off chair, bracing herself with one hand on the driver’s plank and the other on the coffin box.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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