marionette

No one wants to be a Roth IRA marionette.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Fashion and culture magazine Dazed said it "captured the public's imagination with its broken marionette looks and Pat McGrath's glassy, porcelain make-up".

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

It can also reduce the appearance of pores and minimize wrinkles like marionette lines, which go from the nose to the mouth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

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

She trailed strands of leftover spider silk from her arms and legs like the strings of a marionette, but somehow, amazingly, none of the debris had hit her.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

“Initially, when I pitched the show I wanted to do an Almodóvar film with marionettes and Adult Swim very wisely said, ‘This is going to create more complications for you,’” he recalls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

Men who couldn’t, or worse, didn’t want to, were portrayed as marionettes tied to and practically strangled by their mothers’ apron strings.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

The animals could be controlled, in essence, like marionettes.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024

“Another true piece of myself I recovered: I remembered that I’d made some marionettes for my little nieces when I was a teenager. I remembered how much I loved carving the wood.”

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker