dummy

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In 70% of the videos, creators appeared to place a bet on websites that looked nearly identical to Polymarket, but were actually dummy sites the company used to film fake trades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

In reality, Polymarket built near-perfect copies of its website, then instructed creators to make simulated trades on those dummy sites and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

A driver on California's notoriously congested highways put a life-sized dummy in the passenger seat to trick his way into the faster carpool lane, only to get caught for forgetting one detail -- the face.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

For example, photos included in the indictment show the use of a hair dryer to move serial numbers to boxes of nonworking, replicated dummy servers in an attempt to mislead the U.S.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

“Whatever,” he says to his brother, then to me, “Yo, Isaiah, let’s go to the park, and let this dummy clean the room.”

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist