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
Before a kid can read or write, message tees provide an opportunity for a parent to ventriloquize at whim.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2018
I asked the questions, and was of course supposed to ventriloquize the answers, and, thanks to the glassy stare of my doll, her replies almost convinced the audience I was doing so.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
His verified Twitter account, however, ventriloquized his criticism of Sen. Kamala Harris.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2020
Bobby is the ventriloquized “Me” of the title, telling, from beyond the grave, a version of her life story in four sections: “My Mother,” “Your Mother,” “Our Life Together” and “After Me.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2020
Priebus failed in his mission and doesn’t appear to have been ventriloquized anonymously before the real story came to light.
From Slate ● May 2, 2017
“Well,” Jacob’s better angel ventriloquized, “I’d love to see it someday.”
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2016
And the woman came off victor, for Fritz ventriloquized no further, and the passengers had nothing to say, having no desire to get plastered up with freshly prepared pumpkin pie.
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It’s never easy to inhabit the inner world of a teenager, let alone one facing the end of the world, but Morrison’s ventriloquizing of Haley often feels clumsy and forced.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
By ventriloquizing a woman to voice his most provocative punch lines, he seems to concede that he might not possess the authority to pull off the jokes, or the argument, on his own.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 8, 2019
At the very least, it demonstrates that Lacey is capable of ventriloquizing well beyond the quirky-insightful voice of “Nobody is Ever Missing.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2017
The film asks us to ponder what we can know about our contemporary moment when we stop ventriloquizing our ancestors, and begin to speak in our own voices.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2017
But all further explanation was cut short by a horrible, unearthly noise, like a sepulchre ventriloquizing.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
