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marionette

[mar-ee-uh-net] / ˌmær i əˈnɛt /


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It allows him to keep pulling those marionette strings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Creative pandemic-era solutions, including Zoom puppet classes, mobile marionette shows, even wedding planning helped the Bob Baker Marionette Theater thrive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

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

He hung the marionette back on the wall.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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 animals could be controlled, in essence, like marionettes.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024

Think of the pins as marionettes with nylon cords attached to their heads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

She learned how to create marionettes, write scripts and perform.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

“The marionettes don’t just swing around in thin air over a couple of hay bales.”

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker


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