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a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising
mannequins striding down the catwalk in the designer's spring collection
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Recent Examples of mannequin
Pedestrians walk past a Nike store featuring a modern design and mannequins displaying winter apparel on December 5, 2024, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
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Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
The designers threw a party themselves, filling the ballroom at Palazzo Visconti di Modrone with a spiffy crowd of mannequins swilling Champagne, chatting at the dinner table and generally whooping it up.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
According to the program, Naso had 10 mannequins hanging in his garage.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Other laser products by Tonello include the Laser Lab, a smaller machine for stores and laboratories; the Laser TM, a machine that allows horizontal and vertical processing; and the Laser Dual, which allows simultaneous work on both the legs of a mannequin.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
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Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
The designers threw a party themselves, filling the ballroom at Palazzo Visconti di Modrone with a spiffy crowd of mannequins swilling Champagne, chatting at the dinner table and generally whooping it up.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
According to the program, Naso had 10 mannequins hanging in his garage.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Other laser products by Tonello include the Laser Lab, a smaller machine for stores and laboratories; the Laser TM, a machine that allows horizontal and vertical processing; and the Laser Dual, which allows simultaneous work on both the legs of a mannequin.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannequin
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The naked baby angel boy character with whimsical headgear comes in different forms—from regular, mini dolls to the popular Hippers, which are designed to hang from your phone or laptop with a square of adhesive tape.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
16 Oct. 2025
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Sailors in dress whites stood at attention like dolls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Whatever is decided, some kind of change in Madrid’s club model is coming, and has been in preparation for some time.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Beyond medical uses The team also equipped the robot with a tiny camera, enabling it to inspect hard-to-reach spots inside the jet engine model.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The audience for wax museums is melting away in the digital age, when posing with a static dummy has come to feel rather quaint.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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But for the most part, these competitors were dummies all around, with even the biggest threats deeply flawed or actively annoying in some way.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Mannequin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannequin. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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