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as in doll
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
gave her a puppet with strings for a gift
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Recent Examples of puppet
The video even featured snippets of the show, including a glimpse of the puppet Sebastian and Ursula the sea witch.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 May 2025
Or maybe watching these themes play out in robot stories makes our own mortality easier to contemplate — like play-therapy puppets, the bots hold the nightmare at arm’s length and abstract it.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
The puppets imbued the play with a poetry of motion and an otherworldly sense of wonder.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
At various points in its history, the house also housed a puppet theater and a members-only nightclub called the Continental Casino.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 May 2025
Or maybe watching these themes play out in robot stories makes our own mortality easier to contemplate — like play-therapy puppets, the bots hold the nightmare at arm’s length and abstract it.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
The puppets imbued the play with a poetry of motion and an otherworldly sense of wonder.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
At various points in its history, the house also housed a puppet theater and a members-only nightclub called the Continental Casino.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puppet
Noun
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Is a demonic doll touring the U.S. to blame for the mishaps in Louisiana?—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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This year, Hasbro also released a new Jem doll to celebrate the series’ anniversary.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
26 May 2025
Noun
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What follows across ten episodes are assassination attempts, uneasy alliances, and deft political manoeuvring as the regents use Blackthorne like a pawn.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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At that point, the Kremlin can use Iran as a pawn to make deals with other powers.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
Noun
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The handy garden tool has racked up more than 44,000 perfect ratings from Amazon shoppers.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Attention journaling is a powerful tool to notice what our busy attention is picking up and filling our senses with.—
Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir,
Time,
20 May 2025
Noun
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Besides being massively ignorant, Musk and his minions are drunk on ideology.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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Through their minions in the media, in Big Pharma, and woke teachers manipulating their children's minds, these elites hold an iron grip on society.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Puppet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppet. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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