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Instead, it punted costs to the future by tacking on something called void years—effectively dummy years—at the end of contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

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

She had lately taken to making conversation with the dummy to add some theater for the audience.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

The maneuvers were simply drills; the nuclear warheads that KGB agents had spied being loaded onto B-52s were dummies.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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 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

In stoppage time, Tostao's through ball for Pele drew out Uruguay keeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, but instead of taking it around him, the forward dummied, allowing the ball to run past both him and his opponent.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

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

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

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