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Recent Examples of marionetteIf the Giuseppe marionette from And Just Like That is still giving you the kind of nightmares that plague Sebastiano Pigazzi's character, don't worry.—EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025 But these Titans aren’t going to be manned behind a curtain like a marionette.—Megan Dubois, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025 Giuseppe’s roommate is a creepy old man who enters his room unannounced with an Annabelle-ish marionette carved and painted in Giuseppe’s likeness.—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025 The puppeteers then worked from the artist’s sculptures to make sturdier marionettes for performance.—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for marionette
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.
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Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
16 Oct. 2025
Sailors in dress whites stood at attention like dolls.
Then the chandelier behind was real explosions, the camera team moving the dolly in sequence with Alex [Lawther] acting in the foreground of the whole thing going off in what was essentially one or two seconds.
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Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Crowds formed behind barricades; cameras mounted on dollies glided above fashion insiders, who flitted around like exotic fish in a gilded aquarium.
The Teflon seal around a poppet, a thruster valve, expanded and started extruding out as the thruster headed up.
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Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik,
Quartz,
5 Sep. 2024
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.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Dec. 2021
The industry functions on a delicate infrastructure of intimidation, backbiting, and the occasional contract amid endless favors, yanking Aasmaan through its machinations like a rag doll in the wind.
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Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
19 Sep. 2025
That drive, which included another sack where Burrow was tossed like a rag doll, was exactly what Bengals fans did not want to see.
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