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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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Up next, Johnstone will direct the live-action Monster High movie, based on Mattel’s doll line, for the company, as well as Universal Pictures and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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The group’s notebooks read like fragments of fairy tales or magical realism—years of stories within stories within stories, like Russian nesting dolls.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Goguette cabinet is a more permanent piece of home appliancery that took two of us and a dolly just to move it across the dining room.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 Feb. 2026
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In their new 2026 Bud Light ad, the three are at a wedding when a keg of Bud Light slips off a dolly and rolls down a steep hill.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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
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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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King cakes are baked without a center and have a small, plastic baby figurine in the middle.—
Chris Sims,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Feb. 2026
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King cakes are baked without a center and have a small, plastic baby figurine in the middle.—
Chris Sims,
IndyStar,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Marionette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marionette. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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