marionette

No one wants to be a Roth IRA marionette.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Metz’s workshop is directly behind Fairyland’s puppet stage, and it’s a mini marionette museum, filled with books, pictures and, of course, puppets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

Street performing in the square dates back to 1662 at least, when Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about a marionette show.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

At one point, he seems to become a marionette: the vertical line of the microphone stand dividing him in two, with gyrating arms and legs seemingly independent of each other.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glare like lightning rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

My timings, my instincts, the way that I thought, the way I saw it in my head could be expressed through these really high-tech marionettes on a computer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

The duo was accompanied by vintage marionettes and their handlers, who played backup dancers in the shapes of jellyfish, cats and aliens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

The childlike appeal of marionettes, animation, or even Claymation elements is essential to great Christmas episodes in my opinion.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023

Another crucial inspiration during the initial development of the character was the work of Royal de Luxe, a street theater company based in Nantes, France, that specializes in creating large-scale marionettes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

The puppets—marionettes, he could see now that they were marionettes hanging off the wall—were spookily realistic, and yet like nothing he’d ever seen.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker