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dummy

[duhm-ee] / ˈdʌm i /




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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

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

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




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