dummy
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"Although reportedly carrying a dummy warhead, no nation understands the weight of nuclear testing in Pacific waters better than ours," the statement added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 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
"It's completely different to having a dummy in front of you," he added, referring to the training he had just a few weeks earlier.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
In their experiment they used a dummy based on the average MRI data of an adult Japanese man from the university's partners, Tokyo Institute of Science in Japan.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
An overhead projector beamed a movie onto dummy number two, turning it into a perky woman who looked like a flight attendant.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
Later on, the contestants had to put their doubts and suspicions aside for the day's challenge - in a creepy room full of headless dummies, which needed their Celebrity Traitor heads reattached.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
A screen behind the life-size dummies leapt to life with all sorts of scratchy images of people huddled together on the deck of a boat near the Statue of Liberty.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
His cross was dummied by Vardy, leaving Fatawu with a simple finish.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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
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
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
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
“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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