as in doll
a small statue
his collection of figurines includes toy soldiers from every war that America has fought
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Recent Examples of figurine
The display features blue skies, green grass, a cave with a large rock acting as a door, and a figurine of Jesus pushing the rock aside.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
The figurines have movable joints and serve as a blank canvas to be pierced, painted, posed or sculpted into whatever comes to mind for the artist, or comes in the form of an artist commission.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
The film’s use of religious imagery—in footage of the Islamic ritual tawaf on TV, in the positioning of speakers at the desert party like Catholic figurines on an altar—charges raving with a higher meaning.
—Álex Maroño Porto, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
As happens every year, the resulting statuary would have Cedric Gibbons — the original Oscar artist who first whipped up the figurine in 1928 — spinning in his grave.
—Michael Slenske, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
The figurines have movable joints and serve as a blank canvas to be pierced, painted, posed or sculpted into whatever comes to mind for the artist, or comes in the form of an artist commission.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
The film’s use of religious imagery—in footage of the Islamic ritual tawaf on TV, in the positioning of speakers at the desert party like Catholic figurines on an altar—charges raving with a higher meaning.
—Álex Maroño Porto, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
As happens every year, the resulting statuary would have Cedric Gibbons — the original Oscar artist who first whipped up the figurine in 1928 — spinning in his grave.
—Michael Slenske, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for figurine
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While the global economy has conspired for decades to bring down the cost of dolls and footballs, the biggest expenses of raising kids—childcare, summer camp, music lessons, babysitting, college tuition, health care—all suffer from Baumol’s cost disease.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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Zara Larsson and Olandria, with their Bratz-doll-level glam by makeup artists Sophia Sinot and Ngozi Esther Edeme.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
8 Apr. 2026
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Though widely acclaimed as a sculptor, Noguchi spent five decades working to pull sculpture off its proverbial pedestal, insisting that it be lived in—embedded in plazas, parks, and playgrounds as sites of civic interaction.—
Terry Nguyen,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The statue of the first president at Valley Forge is a 16-foot-tall replica of a Brooklyn, New York, sculpture located near the Williamsburg Bridge.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
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Medical dramas that tap into this high-stress environment frequently get rewarded with statuettes, eyeballs, and endless season renewals, and anyone entering the world of writer-director Petra Volpe’s Late Shift will immediately feel right at home.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2026
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Truer words were never spoken, although Anderson would have plenty of statuettes before the evening was finished.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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Motta routinely demanded six- or seven-figure settlements, and contingency fees often ran as high as forty per cent.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The order matters, because most states use figures from the federal tax form as the starting point for their state tax calculations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Figurine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figurine. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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