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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
The puppets then provided the children with either a valid excuse for not producing the toy, a bad excuse or no excuse at all.
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Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
Serling’s creative baby teeth were first cut at home with family storytelling, puppet shows, and skits.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
South Haven Library volunteers were present for puppet show storytelling.
—Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
Visitors will hear rock and roll bands and see interactive dances, acrobatic performances, wildlife puppets, brass bands, wildlife presentations and African dances, music and performances.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
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Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
Serling’s creative baby teeth were first cut at home with family storytelling, puppet shows, and skits.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
South Haven Library volunteers were present for puppet show storytelling.
—Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
Visitors will hear rock and roll bands and see interactive dances, acrobatic performances, wildlife puppets, brass bands, wildlife presentations and African dances, music and performances.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puppet
Noun
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For her second wedding in 1964, Elizabeth Taylor wore a marigold yellow chiffon baby doll dress — her hair braided down her back and strewn with flowers.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
30 June 2025
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Instead, the robot doll sequel didn’t come close to matching the 2022 original’s box-office launch.—
Jake Coyle,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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The guitar would later turn up in a Las Vegas pawn shop.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Anthony-Brown was fortunate to secure a lease in one of the neighborhood's most architecturally significant landmarks, the art deco-style Paramount Square Building, which opened in 1931 but has been vacant since its last tenant, a pawn shop, shuttered in 2005.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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And Marcus Wheatland, known as the doctor of the swells, was a medical practitioner and a pioneer of X-rays as a diagnostic tool.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
8 July 2025
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Teaching your child feeling words can be a great tool to begin and sustain the conversation around big emotions.—
Amy Morin,
Parents,
7 July 2025
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Yanking the rug out from under thousands of foreigners who often risked life and limb to find a safe haven in America is an unconscionable act of heartless, anti-humanitarian gall on the part of Donald Trump and his minions.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
9 June 2025
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Her niftiest fight sequence looks like abstract art: a stark black-and-white aerial pan of her shadow battling minions down a hallway.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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“Puppet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppet. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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