dummy
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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
It’s a pixelated image of the ventriloquist dummy actor Bill Murray uses in the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
The monsters made a semicircle around a young guy in Greek armor who was hacking on a straw dummy.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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And the late rounds were for special teams fodder and training-camp tackling dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I cannot emphasize enough that we are dummies when it comes to programming.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2026
With camouflage-clad dummies in the window and slogans like "cool and spicy" it aims to attract men and women to serve, but only gets a handful of callers each day.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
During Glastonbury, he set out a blow-up boat, filled with dummies in lifejackets, during a set from Bristol-based post-punk band Idles.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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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
It got better for the tourists when Ringrose made a half-break, dummied and then passed to Smith, who grubbered cleverly.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
Hamilton dummied for the inside at Turn One with seven laps to go and Norris defended with a late move.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2023
But half a lap later, Norris went for the position again into Turn 12, dummying Leclerc and this time making the move stick.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
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
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
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 Joseph Furphy