ventriloquize

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

The site also featured several ventriloquized posts from Tiny Pinocchio telling his life story:

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023

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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When Leroy, explaining the philosophy behind his T-shirts, says he’s “forcing people to confront words and images they normally avoid,” you hear him ventriloquizing for Hunter.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

The Yes Men refer to their practice as “identity correction,” ventriloquizing what corporate culture would say if a truth serum made it display its real self.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 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

“I would argue that, at best, it is reckless for a stranger to take a stab at ventriloquizing the dead,” Oliver points out.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2019

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