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as in idiots
a stupid person
it's obvious that she's in love with you, you dummy
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as in figures
a three-dimensional representation of the human body used especially for displaying clothes
the dummies were arranged in the store window as if they were acting out scenes
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as in copies
something that is made to look exactly like something else
for the movie, the props department made a dummy of the lunar module actually used in the mission
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Recent Examples of dummies
Through the fuzz and the bad camera angles emerges an extraordinary catalogue of dummies, flicks, and feints, a hodge-podge of silly tricks.
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Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026
More than a dozen city, county and state agencies worked together, deploying drones, using dummies as cadavers, and taking on the roles of victims, triage and others to make the drill as realistic as possible.
—Mark Prussin, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Most hospital training labs use basic dummies or simple mannequins to teach medical skills.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
Over the next two years, Chris filmed the mosquitoes circling the Styrofoam dummies mercilessly.
—David Hu, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
By the end, Moral Orel was not using caricatures to spoof these dummies and the whole concept of religion but looking deeply at them and seeing flawed, but perhaps not irredeemable, people.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
After Saturday’s glam — quarterbacks threw passes to smooth-moving receivers while running backs dodged tackling dummies — Sunday offers a dose of grit.
—Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
The trophies handed out during the Grammys presentation are dummies that are reused each year.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Becker, 31, is one of the few young adults pursuing the fading art, which sees her sharing a stage with two dummies named Jerry and Ronnie.
—Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026
More than a dozen city, county and state agencies worked together, deploying drones, using dummies as cadavers, and taking on the roles of victims, triage and others to make the drill as realistic as possible.
—Mark Prussin, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Most hospital training labs use basic dummies or simple mannequins to teach medical skills.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
Over the next two years, Chris filmed the mosquitoes circling the Styrofoam dummies mercilessly.
—David Hu, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
By the end, Moral Orel was not using caricatures to spoof these dummies and the whole concept of religion but looking deeply at them and seeing flawed, but perhaps not irredeemable, people.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
After Saturday’s glam — quarterbacks threw passes to smooth-moving receivers while running backs dodged tackling dummies — Sunday offers a dose of grit.
—Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
The trophies handed out during the Grammys presentation are dummies that are reused each year.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026
Becker, 31, is one of the few young adults pursuing the fading art, which sees her sharing a stage with two dummies named Jerry and Ronnie.
—Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dummies
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Kids, let’s face it, are idiots by nature, and that’s not their fault.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
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Freedom from screech No one wants to sit near idiots who just want to scream about their love of their team and provoke fans into fights, like the one Monday between Yankees and Rangers fans at Globe Life Field.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Such casualty figures can easily desensitize us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Historic success Showing why the draft was a success, Visit Pittsburgh points to the big attendance figures, relatively low emergency responses, big public transit ridership, and billions in public relations impressions.—
Ricky Sayer,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
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More than a decade after VIBE ceased producing physical copies and became online-only, the iconic brand is relaunching print — with the first issue set to be released next week.—
Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
26 May 2026
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Perching on branches, power lines and other structures is another avian talent which researchers are still attempting to duplicate, often with direct copies of bird feet.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.—
McKay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Builders ages 5 years and older can throw their own pool party with this Lego Friends set, featuring unicorn and flamingo floaties, a DJ booth, lounge chair, and mini dolls of Leo, Liann, and Churro the cat.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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The brand is using the milestone to update its core dolls, expand its licensing business, and keep the focus on the original four characters that launched the label in 2001.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
18 May 2026
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Early in the movie, failed architect and failing furniture-store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers a portal into a seemingly endless, unpopulated liminal space filled with distorted reproductions of real-world rooms, objects, and even whole neighborhoods.—
Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Rooms are done in rich fabrics in warm earth tones and dressed up with elements of local design, such as reproductions of Pavel Janak’s angular Cubist timber chairs and elegant chaise longues from designer Adolf Loos.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 May 2026
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What are the many festival costumiers and their more-and-less-famous mannequins to do?—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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There were two mannequins, one of the Duchess and one of the Duke.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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The company builds coral-reef replicas to install in areas where reefs have been lost or are suffering.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
28 May 2026
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In a section that hammered home that this really is the end of an era, the hosts called on stage key figures of the last decade to carry out replicas of each of the major trophies won during the Guardiola decade.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
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“Dummies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dummies. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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