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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

"What we do is we measure energy in a lab with dummy heads. What effect that has on the brain remains to be seen," Phillips said.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

His film contains gestures that trigger ironic laughs — he’s no dummy — but then leave you with a sting you may be embarrassed to admit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

In 70% of the videos, creators appeared to place a bet on websites that looked nearly identical to Polymarket, but were actually dummy sites the company used to film fake trades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Still, she told herself, she was not a dummy either, so as long as she kept her thoughts to herself, well, where was the harm?

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

With camouflage-clad dummies in the window and slogans like "cool and spicy" it aims to attract men and women to serve, but only gets a handful of callers each day.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

Why did they all stand like dummies, like people in a trance?

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

Deep in the Welsh 22 and with Anscombe in his road, the fly-half dummied, stepped and then found Graham, who roared in.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025

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

And once Jake Wardle dummied to set up his Warriors club-mate Smith for England's second try on 20 minutes, Laurent Frayssinous's young side struggled to respond.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

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

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

Unsurprisingly, given the season he has had so far, Ricciardo won it, with two breathtaking moves on Perez and Vettel, dummying both into the second chicane.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2014

Bob and Bat were dummying on the station at the time, and looking after the Skeleton paddock.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph