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Recent Examples of marionette
If 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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marionette
Noun
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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
Noun
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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.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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Crowds formed behind barricades; cameras mounted on dollies glided above fashion insiders, who flitted around like exotic fish in a gilded aquarium.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 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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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.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
19 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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Fans came with their favorite plush charms and solid figurines and their latest purchase from the collaboration for Lung to sign.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
12 Oct. 2025
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In addition, there will be furniture, rugs, lamps, ceramic figurines and other decor for sale.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Marionette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marionette. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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