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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 mannequins
Swimming pool events have the competitors rescuing mannequins and towing each other.
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
The tourism hub is lined with hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment spots, but the council says lewd messages sprawled across the backsides of storefront mannequins and tongue-in-cheek T-shirts are tarnishing the area’s wholesome image.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
That means big logos and in-your-face branding could be getting more space on runways and store mannequins.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
Training mannequins are tucked into a few beds to help students learn how to treat patients.
—Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
In the skills lab, students can be found in their signature purple scrubs, introducing themselves to the mannequins and asking them about their pain, said Brenda Solari, the Meridian site director, on a tour of the campus.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2025
On one of McGovern’s trips through the loop of rooms, mannequins of the Mehndez family sit around a TV that shows stock footage of unsettling threshers on farmland.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The presentation at a palatial 18th-century mansion on the Left Bank, the longtime home of the late Karl Lagerfeld, was set up like an exhibition, with artworks, design objects and crafts mingling with the women’s and men’s collections, presented on mannequins.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
Kohl's is reintroducing mannequins in stores to enhance the customer shopping experience.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 25 Jan. 2022
Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
The tourism hub is lined with hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment spots, but the council says lewd messages sprawled across the backsides of storefront mannequins and tongue-in-cheek T-shirts are tarnishing the area’s wholesome image.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
That means big logos and in-your-face branding could be getting more space on runways and store mannequins.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
Training mannequins are tucked into a few beds to help students learn how to treat patients.
—Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
In the skills lab, students can be found in their signature purple scrubs, introducing themselves to the mannequins and asking them about their pain, said Brenda Solari, the Meridian site director, on a tour of the campus.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2025
On one of McGovern’s trips through the loop of rooms, mannequins of the Mehndez family sit around a TV that shows stock footage of unsettling threshers on farmland.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The presentation at a palatial 18th-century mansion on the Left Bank, the longtime home of the late Karl Lagerfeld, was set up like an exhibition, with artworks, design objects and crafts mingling with the women’s and men’s collections, presented on mannequins.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
Kohl's is reintroducing mannequins in stores to enhance the customer shopping experience.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 25 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannequins
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Labubu dolls are made by Chinese toymaker Pop Mart.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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The Labubu craze has made the founder of the company behind the viral dolls richer than ever.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Still, the American Medical Association does not endorse or oppose specific healthcare models, including concierge medicine, the AMA told The Charlotte Observer in an email.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Sep. 2025
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The credits do not apply to every package offered on some electric car or truck or plug-in hybrid models.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Seating capacity figures are from team and stadium websites, as well as media reports.—
Michael Ozanian,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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The reason the figures are so low for 1992-93 and 1993-94 is that, as mentioned, the first two rounds in those seasons count as qualifying.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Still, as Mann says, members of Gen Z are no dummies.—
Julia Sullivan,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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But the claim here isn’t that the Snakes are baseball dummies and the Padres are baseball geniuses.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Mannequins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannequins. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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