dummy
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"Then they built a long, thin corridor, about half a mile long, to a small dummy house, and that's where you go in," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Ying, 39, would check the works out and return days later with dummy manuscripts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
The United States voiced alarm Monday over Beijing's nuclear program after China test-fired a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean, the latest move in its rapid military modernization.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Most of all, she felt love for the furry-toed and furry-backed Mr. Staphopoulos, who was gone, who had moved to North Carolina with Edgar the drowning dummy.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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I cannot emphasize enough that we are dummies when it comes to programming.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2026
His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
On Tuesday, following GM's announcement, Mr Vogt posted on the social media platform X "In case it was unclear before, it is clear now: GM are a bunch of dummies."
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024
Baldwin’s attorneys alleged that Kenney may have co-mingled live bullets with so-called dummies — an allegation that Kenney has long denied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
I kept seeing Maxim’s eyes blazing in his white face, and behind him Giles, and Beatrice and Frank standing like dummies, staring at me.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
However, up stepped star full-back and sevens captain Bianca Silva, who dummied and raced over half of the pitch to score.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
The Lions were playing frantically and without accuracy, but did find their range through the impressive Alex Mitchell, who dummied his way over for the tourists' third try midway through the second half.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
First, 20 year-old midfielder Lopez took his chance to impress on the big stage as he stroked home a side-footed finish on 15 minutes after Lewandowski dummied Raphinha's low cross.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
Russell missed the conversion but showed his class as he dummied his way through the Cardiff defence before his long pass was collected by Will Muir who passed on to Lawrence to score.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
Great Britain took a surprise victory in the first Test with Jonathan Davies dummying, darting and diving in for one of Wembley's great tries.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
EST 09:29 4 min Toner takes this time and Ireland go right, Sexton looping and dummying to make a metre or so through the middle.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
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
Bob and Bat were dummying on the station at the time, and looking after the Skeleton paddock.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph