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as in dolly
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom
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Recent Examples of doll
Stanichi noted that the face of the doll has actually changed almost every 10 years.
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
27 June 2026
Momsen won't answer if she's ever owned a voodoo doll.
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Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
As for beauty, Madonna wore her golden doll-like curls down with a middle part and hair clips.
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Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
25 June 2026
Lawn Ornaments Too many lawn ornaments, such as gnomes, fairies, dolls, or flamingos, read as tacky to Emily Roose, the founder of Emily Roose Interiors.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
23 June 2026
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
27 June 2026
Momsen won't answer if she's ever owned a voodoo doll.
—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
As for beauty, Madonna wore her golden doll-like curls down with a middle part and hair clips.
—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
25 June 2026
Lawn Ornaments Too many lawn ornaments, such as gnomes, fairies, dolls, or flamingos, read as tacky to Emily Roose, the founder of Emily Roose Interiors.
—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doll
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Tuesday, surveillance video shows an SUV pull up and two people enter the back door of Hushcha's loft with a dolly.
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Woo had to ask security to bring his wheelchair and a dolly.
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This is the first time the iconic parade of hardly dressed lovelies has been available to the public.
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Simon Adingra opened the scoring for Sunderland here, after a lovely through ball from their best player this season, Granit Xhaka.
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Beyond the music, there are festive parades, workshops for making puppets or gardening, a 5K run, yoga, silent discos and much more.
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Seeing his grandson suffer, Geppetto (Richard Brake) gifts him a new companion, the titular puppet.
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The queen of the blonde beach babes!
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Most of these songs go out to the babes.
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There’s nothing more satisfying than a poolside lunch or candlelit dinner on the beach, where your three courses total up to less than 600 calories and are still doing your brain, beauty, and microbiome good.
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All of our differences, all of our uniqueness, that’s the beauty, ya’ll.
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Just as hedgehogs deplore foxes for a lack of theoretical ambition, foxes spend their time screaming at hedgehogs for missing this or that eloquent detail.
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If this cutie hasn’t submitted it by now, then his night just got way longer.
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Fans are already in love with Tyler Hynes' Pomeranian named Rusty James, Erin Cahill's cutie Crumpet, Jonathan Bennett's buddy Brad, and Victor Webster's bestie Nova, to name a few.
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And what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions of dollars in killing civilians overseas, while working people are struggling just to do the basics.
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The number of dead was expected to climb, and people reported tens of thousands of missing on independent digital databases.
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“Doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doll. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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