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[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

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

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

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




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