dummy
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Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
A Chinese submarine test-fired a 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. 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
And when the subject of the main clause is the dummy element it or there, the reader glides right over it, and it poses no danger of attracting a dangler.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
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
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
“This only goes to prove...that the intelligent people were all listening to a dummy, and all the dummies were listening to you.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
However, up stepped star full-back and sevens captain Bianca Silva, who dummied and raced over half of the pitch to score.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
The Lions were playing frantically and without accuracy, but did find their range through the impressive Alex Mitchell, who dummied his way over for the tourists' third try midway through the second half.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
In the last seconds, Tomkins dummied to kick and scored to spark celebrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
But half a lap later, Norris went for the position again into Turn 12, dummying Leclerc and this time making the move stick.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
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
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
But there were also patient, one- or two-pass attacks, scrum-half Mike Petri prompting and MacGinty darting and dummying.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 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 Randall Garrett