dummy

Example Sentences

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The completely redesigned version three of the rocket demonstrated engine upgrades and successfully deployed dummy satellites.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

SpaceX has been able to deploy loads of dummy satellites and recapture the booster in massive “chopsticks,” critical to making Starship quickly reusable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

For example, photos included in the indictment show the use of a hair dryer to move serial numbers to boxes of nonworking, replicated dummy servers in an attempt to mislead the U.S.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

The department said Sun, the contractor, would use hair dryers to remove and stick labels and serial number tags to the server boxes and dummy servers, which were captured on surveillance cameras.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

When I went inside, there was the new milliner, seated at a table littered with feathers, bird wings, satin bows, stiff tape, bolts of velvet, linen, silk, and so on, and several life-size dummy heads.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns