doll
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Nearby, a young woman pushed a pram towards a crossing, carrying what appeared to be a doll.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The Russian matryoshka doll, a painted wooden vessel in which five to seven generations nest one inside the other, impersonates eternity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
The fashion doll, however, did not begin as a toy but as a means of communicating trends between kingdoms and countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
He answers to the nickname "Bougie" -- reportedly given him by his Egyptian-born mother, who mixed the French word for doll "poupee" with its Hebrew equivalent "buba".
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Mrs. Thayer fell back in her chair, her head lolling on the pillow as if she were a rag doll.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
By then, he was much better established and able to commission Muppets creator Jim Henson to create life sized dolls, rather than borrow dolls from the Museum of Childhood.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
She also includes revenants: horror dolls and a fascinating video of the macabre 1907 film “The Doll’s Revenge.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
"There are days when I can't sleep," Navarro told AFP at his flat, where a battered pram containing two well-worn dolls stood by the entrance.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
"It's sort of like Russian nesting dolls because you have grog within grog within grog. You can trace this back several generations of pots," Wallis said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Ninety-nine Raggedy Anns on the shelf; ninety-nine Raggedy Anns. If one of the dolls should happen to fall, ninety-eight Raggedy Anns on the shelf.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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