marionette
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No one wants to be a Roth IRA marionette.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Interestingly enough, when I was growing up, there was a touring marionette theater of Richardson that was one of the first places that excited me towards puppets,” Ortiz recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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
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
When he moved again, it was as though marionette strings had been attached to him and given an overzealous yank.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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
An air of phoniness looms over the characters, who appear like marionettes in Coté’s cool, distant tableaux.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
And there were women that also did these marionette shows, and they would wear ball gowns to work marionettes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 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
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