dummy
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Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
A Chinese submarine test-fired a "strategic" missile carrying a dummy warhead on Monday, with monitors saying the rocket appeared to land in a patch of ocean somewhere between Solomon Islands, Nauru and Tuvalu.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
One pretended to be a ventriloquist while the other one was the dummy.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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The cart, constructed primarily from wood and styrofoam, carried dummies and was repeatedly transported back to the starting point for a continuous ride through a push and pull system.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
For decades, Hiccup’s village of Berk has been looted by sheep-stealing dragons — and the dragons in turn have been captured and used as training dummies for future dragon-killers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025
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
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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
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
In training he tossed around a rugby ball and dummied past England assistant coach Marcus Trescothick.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
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
Great Britain took a surprise victory in the first Test with Jonathan Davies dummying, darting and diving in for one of Wembley's great tries.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023
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
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
A move started by Luke Eves's break ended with Jeremy Manning dummying over.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010
So far as dummying is concerned." said I; "no one except their Maker and M'Gregor knows how the thing was worked.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy