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The video also features an adorable cameo from Cesily Collette Taylor, who portrays young Nessarose in the films, as well as the two little witches’ green and pink teddy bears.—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2025 Did that teddy bear catch your eye?—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025 Malik doesn’t know that his efforts are in vain, since Dinah’s blue teddy bear is chipped with a GPS tracker that Amos has been using to monitor her location.—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025 The online creator purchased two bottles, one shaped like a gingerbread man and another like a teddy bear.—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for teddy bear
Word History
Etymology
Teddy, nickname of Theodore Roosevelt; from a cartoon depicting the president sparing the life of a bear cub while hunting
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