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marionette

[mar-ee-uh-net] / ˌmær i əˈnɛt /


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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

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

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

Fincher said the hard part was giving the marionettes a feeling of suspension.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

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

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024

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

From New York Times ● May 15, 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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