marionette
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No one wants to be a Roth IRA marionette.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Christmas lights glisten, a communal tree beckons to be decorated and a marionette handler wanders the grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Street performing in the square dates back to 1662 at least, when Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about a marionette show.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
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
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
The childlike appeal of marionettes, animation, or even Claymation elements is essential to great Christmas episodes in my opinion.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023
Think of the pins as marionettes with nylon cords attached to their heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Another crucial inspiration during the initial development of the character was the work of Royal de Luxe, a street theater company based in Nantes, France, that specializes in creating large-scale marionettes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
It was as though the masked wizards on the ground were puppeteers, and the people above them were marionettes operated by invisible strings that rose from the wands into the air.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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