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dummy

[duhm-ee] / ˈdʌm i /




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Odegaard scored after a perfectly timed, intelligent run into the box that allowed him to step on to Kai Havertz's clever dummy before sending an emphatic finish past Chelsea keeper Emiliano Martinez.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

On Sunday in Cardiff, Odegaard capped an all-action display with a brilliant third goal when his dummy left City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma on the floor.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

A Chinese submarine fired the ballistic missile fitted with a dummy warhead earlier this month, reaching far into the Pacific Ocean.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

A lump formed in my throat when I realized the dummy was wearing an orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

And the late rounds were for special teams fodder and training-camp tackling dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

And I still really love that chapter about freestyling and battling for dummies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

At the end of the film, Murphy engages in humorous conversations with his dummies of Pryor and Cosby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

Later on, the contestants had to put their doubts and suspicions aside for the day's challenge - in a creepy room full of headless dummies, which needed their Celebrity Traitor heads reattached.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

These guys are a bunch of straight-up dummies, man.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

In training he tossed around a rugby ball and dummied past England assistant coach Marcus Trescothick.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

In the last seconds, Tomkins dummied to kick and scored to spark celebrations.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023

It was just a matter of time until the pressure told and James struck from six yards after Gregory cleverly dummied a through ball.

From BBC ● May 18, 2023

And once Jake Wardle dummied to set up his Warriors club-mate Smith for England's second try on 20 minutes, Laurent Frayssinous's young side struggled to respond.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023

An early second-half try from Bennison, taking a fizzing Lomax cut-out ball and dummying Matt Dufty, seemed to deflate Warrington, and Saints dominated thereafter.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2023

Karim Benzema opened the scoring with a stunning effort, cutting in from the right wing before dummying his way past three defenders and slotting in.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022

But there were also patient, one- or two-pass attacks, scrum-half Mike Petri prompting and MacGinty darting and dummying.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2015

With Hohaia dummying through some strangely hesitant Warrington defence in between times, Saints had a wholly unexpected 14-0 lead.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013

“Lieutenant, do you actually mean that you really don’t know what’s going on here, or are you just dummying up?”

From Unwise Child by Randall Garrett




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