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Recent Examples of marionette
This snowy themed show, which features about 100 marionettes, includes sledding slopes, caroling penguins and Santa’s workshop.
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
Out of nowhere, like a limp marionette, Dakota would drop to the ground.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Dolled Up Halloween This aesthetic continues to capture imaginations, with marionette costumes showing strong search growth lately.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
The characters are bright, marionette-like caricatures whom the author constructs and moves ostentatiously in full view of the reader, revealing his artistic devices with a sense of absurd, mischievous humor.
—Nelly Klos
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
Out of nowhere, like a limp marionette, Dakota would drop to the ground.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Dolled Up Halloween This aesthetic continues to capture imaginations, with marionette costumes showing strong search growth lately.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
The characters are bright, marionette-like caricatures whom the author constructs and moves ostentatiously in full view of the reader, revealing his artistic devices with a sense of absurd, mischievous humor.
—Nelly Klos
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marionette
Noun
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Every memory holding the sum of us—not me alone, but a nesting doll of memories, proof that someone in the world once mothered us, even if that mothering had to come from only ourselves.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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And referring to yourself as my doll.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Each band’s gear had been set up on dollies and risers, secured under forty-foot-long tents.—
Alex Abramovich,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Attach four caster wheels to the base of an old cabinet door to form a dolly.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Dec. 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
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Inside, archaeologists discovered fragments of female figurines and two terracotta cattle.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Jan. 2026
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The campus serves as a dedicated workspace where artists across various departments masterfully craft each figurine.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Marionette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marionette. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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