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as in doll
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
gave her a puppet with strings for a gift
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Recent Examples of puppet
There are scenes in the play where Ramos and Bradford operate a pair of space alien puppets, but to say more would spoil the play’s final twists.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Ortiz is also credited as a puppet designer on the 2022 movie Cryptic.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
Gosling and Ortiz rehearsed each scene before bringing out the puppet, nailing down the blocking between them first.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
These efforts apparently relied on a mix of sock-puppet accounts across social media platforms, which promoted the spurious claims of vilifying websites.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Ortiz is also credited as a puppet designer on the 2022 movie Cryptic.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
Gosling and Ortiz rehearsed each scene before bringing out the puppet, nailing down the blocking between them first.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
These efforts apparently relied on a mix of sock-puppet accounts across social media platforms, which promoted the spurious claims of vilifying websites.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puppet
Noun
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The queen will gift a new Roo doll to the New York Public Library’s famous Winnie the Pooh collection as the character marks 100 years since its creation.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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The leader of the rebellion chatted with young kids carrying Princess Leia dolls and wearing Boba Fett masks.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
29 Apr. 2026
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They were outcoached, David Adelman playing the role of a pawn in Chris Finch’s weeklong chess game.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
1 May 2026
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In the lawsuit’s version of things, the Roys Report was a pawn used by Waterland to spread a false rape story and fatally undermine all of Campbell’s businesses.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2026
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After Anthropic’s success in attracting business users, OpenAI is beefing up its Codex coding agent and other work tools.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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State leaders should look beyond land use and taxation as tools for lowering prices.—
Maxwell Harden,
Sun Sentinel,
3 May 2026
Noun
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Your president and his minions spread war, chaos, lies and economic instability.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Scott Quigley, a loyal minion of yet another septuagenarian Democrat hack DA, Marian Ryan of Middlesex County.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Puppet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppet. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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