dummy
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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
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
In September 2024, China carried out its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in decades, launching a dummy warhead from Hainan island in southern China into waters near French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
They get out of the vehicle, dragging a black, life-size dummy with them.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
And I still really love that chapter about freestyling and battling for dummies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025
Including a new £7.5m facility, opened last autumn, where crash test dummies are strapped to a seat and shot down a short track at incredible speeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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
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
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
And once Jake Wardle dummied to set up his Warriors club-mate Smith for England's second try on 20 minutes, Laurent Frayssinous's young side struggled to respond.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023
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
A move started by Luke Eves's break ended with Jeremy Manning dummying over.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010
“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 Garrett, Randall
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