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Recent Examples of marionette
Clicking and clacking, a tiny wooden marionette lifts an apple to his mouth ad finitum.
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Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025
Fincher said the hard part was giving the marionettes a feeling of suspension.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
But for anyone with a taste for operatic violence and fountains of blood as shotgun and assault rifle blasts send bodies flying in slo-mo or dancing like convulsive marionettes, Gareth Evans’ gritty neo-noir will be just the ticket.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
At times, Expedition 33 feels like a twisted fairy tale, something akin to Alice in Wonderland but far more French (complete with mimes and marionettes).
—PC Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
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Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025
Fincher said the hard part was giving the marionettes a feeling of suspension.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
But for anyone with a taste for operatic violence and fountains of blood as shotgun and assault rifle blasts send bodies flying in slo-mo or dancing like convulsive marionettes, Gareth Evans’ gritty neo-noir will be just the ticket.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
At times, Expedition 33 feels like a twisted fairy tale, something akin to Alice in Wonderland but far more French (complete with mimes and marionettes).
—PC Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marionette
Noun
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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
Noun
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The vehicle barriers resemble massive metal dollies that can be rolled to different locations.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The clever bit is that neither truck nor trailer requires modification to accept the dolly, which connects to a truck’s standard fifth-wheel hitch but supplies a smart kingpin.—
Ian Baker
July 22,
New Atlas,
22 July 2025
Noun
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The Teflon seal around a poppet, a thruster valve, expanded and started extruding out as the thruster headed up.—
Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik,
Quartz,
5 Sep. 2024
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In the Old World, hexing your enemies required use of candle magick, mysterious sigils or poppet dolls impaled by needles; in 2021, Nessa Barrett turns hexes into dark-pop hits.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Dec. 2021
Noun
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That drive, which included another sack where Burrow was tossed like a rag doll, was exactly what Bengals fans did not want to see.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Without warning or notice the door opens and the bull bolted into the arena, throwing Horton around like a rag doll.—
Jon-Michael Banks,
Kansas City Star,
31 July 2025
Noun
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According to Google Trends, searches in the fluffy figurine with a grin of spiky teeth peaked in the week of July 13 to 19, and has since seen a gradual decline.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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The trio posed next to a two-tier cake with a figurine of Swift singing on top in honor of her Speak Now World Tour in 2011 in support of her third studio album, Speak Now.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Marionette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marionette. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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