dummy
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On Sunday in Cardiff, Odegaard capped an all-action display with a brilliant third goal when his dummy left City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma on the floor.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s a pixelated image of the ventriloquist dummy actor Bill Murray uses in the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Then they built a long, thin corridor, about half a mile long, to a small dummy house, and that's where you go in," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
But there was no answer from the dummy.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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I cannot emphasize enough that we are dummies when it comes to programming.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2026
His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
For decades, Hiccup’s village of Berk has been looted by sheep-stealing dragons — and the dragons in turn have been captured and used as training dummies for future dragon-killers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Including a new £7.5m facility, opened last autumn, where crash test dummies are strapped to a seat and shot down a short track at incredible speeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
The young guy who’d thrown his voice like a bear did a ventriloquist act that was so good I almost believed his dummies had come alive.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Mitchell, who was excellent, dummied his way over for the Lions' third after the Waratahs made a mess of a tap penalty.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
The Lions were playing frantically and without accuracy, but did find their range through the impressive Alex Mitchell, who dummied his way over for the tourists' third try midway through the second half.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
First, 20 year-old midfielder Lopez took his chance to impress on the big stage as he stroked home a side-footed finish on 15 minutes after Lewandowski dummied Raphinha's low cross.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
His cross was dummied by Vardy, leaving Fatawu with a simple finish.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
Great Britain took a surprise victory in the first Test with Jonathan Davies dummying, darting and diving in for one of Wembley's great tries.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023
The Tigers scrum-half spotted an understaffed blind-side as the hosts braced themselves for another driven maul off a line-out five metres out before darting, dummying and diving in for a fine score.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022
But there were also patient, one- or two-pass attacks, scrum-half Mike Petri prompting and MacGinty darting and dummying.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2015
With Hohaia dummying through some strangely hesitant Warrington defence in between times, Saints had a wholly unexpected 14-0 lead.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
So far as dummying is concerned." said I; "no one except their Maker and M'Gregor knows how the thing was worked.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy