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marionette

[mar-ee-uh-net] / ˌmær i əˈnɛt /


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Christmas lights glisten, a communal tree beckons to be decorated and a marionette handler wanders the grounds.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

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

A classic marionette might have eight to 10 strings.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023

As if fixed to the same marionette bar, the serpents moved as one, tightening around the raft.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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