dummy
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It’s a pixelated image of the ventriloquist dummy actor Bill Murray uses in the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"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
"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
"My job is to fire footballs at test dummy heads and see what happens"
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
About fifteen minutes into the show, popular ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wooden dummy Charlie McCarthy finished their comedy skit.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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And I still really love that chapter about freestyling and battling for dummies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
I cannot emphasize enough that we are dummies when it comes to programming.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 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
At the end of the film, Murphy engages in humorous conversations with his dummies of Pryor and Cosby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
"Jib" was short for "jack-in-the-box," the name given to pop-up dummies developed by the CIA to make it seem as if a passenger were riding in a car.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
Russell missed the conversion but showed his class as he dummied his way through the Cardiff defence before his long pass was collected by Will Muir who passed on to Lawrence to score.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 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
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
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
EST 09:29 4 min Toner takes this time and Ireland go right, Sexton looping and dummying to make a metre or so through the middle.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
A move started by Luke Eves's break ended with Jeremy Manning dummying over.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010
Bob and Bat were dummying on the station at the time, and looking after the Skeleton paddock.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy