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dummy

[duhm-ee] / ˈdʌm i /




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Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Just over a month prior, China had test-fired a submarine ballistic missile with a dummy nuclear warhead with the capacity to reach the U.S. from Chinese coastal waters, raising alarms across the Pacific region.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"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

The nuclear-capable missile fitted with a dummy warhead landed somewhere between Nauru, Tuvalu and the Solomon Islands, according to monitors and Pacific officials.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The Mercury’s radio dramas weren’t as popular as the programs featuring comedian Jack Benny, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy, or Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour performers.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Were you among the dummies who, as Davante Adams put it, were “freaking out”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The cart, constructed primarily from wood and styrofoam, carried dummies and was repeatedly transported back to the starting point for a continuous ride through a push and pull system.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

“This only goes to prove...that the intelligent people were all listening to a dummy, and all the dummies were listening to you.”

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

That error resulted in Ireland's second try, while Fraser Dingwall was beaten on the outside by Robert Baloucoune, who dummied Tommy Freeman and then escaped Lawrence, for Tommy O'Brien's score.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

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

Mitchell, who was excellent, dummied his way over for the Lions' third after the Waratahs made a mess of a tap penalty.

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

The Tigers scrum-half spotted an understaffed blind-side as the hosts braced themselves for another driven maul off a line-out five metres out before darting, dummying and diving in for a fine score.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022

Manoa gets it back though and MacGinty goes searing through the broken field, dummying and getting up to the 22.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015

Unsurprisingly, given the season he has had so far, Ricciardo won it, with two breathtaking moves on Perez and Vettel, dummying both into the second chicane.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2014

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

Bob and Bat were dummying on the station at the time, and looking after the Skeleton paddock.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy




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