marionette
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No one wants to be a Roth IRA marionette.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 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
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
And each time I ask a question, she jerks up and down in her desk like a marionette, while her hand waves over the bowed heads of her classmates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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
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
Before that, Evans didn’t think much about marionettes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Built in the 1980s, its use declined as long-string marionettes fell out of fashion in favour of glove and rod puppets like The Muppets.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
He looked behind him at the four crude pine crates the marionettes were packed in, strapped to the back.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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