puppet
Example Sentences
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That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Ortiz admits it was an adjustment to work with a puppet he didn’t design himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
She said there had been a campaign in the 70s to find the puppet and no-one knew it had been taken by people on a day trip to London.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
The Golden Hours grabbed her shoulders, and she sagged like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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