ventriloquize

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Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023

But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Why not experiment, mess around a little, throw your voice, ventriloquize, pick up one form and put it down and move on to another?

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

To engage in krivlyanya, the noun form of krivlyatsa, means to be artificial—to ventriloquize someone else instead of being yourself.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2017

Perry rapped on the chain-box and inquired if anybody was within, and nobody answering, he had to ventriloquize a negative.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various