as in doll
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
my kid sister was always playing with her dollies
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Recent Examples of dolly
The deliverymen with their dollies and boxes, ready with their tags.
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Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
The soundless video shows a worker walking toward the black and white colored chopper that has its main rotor blade tied to a dolly.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Just a few doors down, surrounded by insulation and a bent garage door held together by a string, Todd Wright put together a new dolly.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Apr. 2025
Similarly, in World of Warcraft, the scroll wheel dollies the camera in and out, changing the view of the game.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2011
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Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
The soundless video shows a worker walking toward the black and white colored chopper that has its main rotor blade tied to a dolly.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Just a few doors down, surrounded by insulation and a bent garage door held together by a string, Todd Wright put together a new dolly.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Apr. 2025
Similarly, in World of Warcraft, the scroll wheel dollies the camera in and out, changing the view of the game.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dolly
doll
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Labubu is a doll that resembles a monster, featuring a large head, sharp teeth and prominent eyes.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Annabelle has been in so many movies now, to the point of being overused (the real doll has even been suspected of paranormal activity recently).—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Dolly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dolly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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