plaything
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Autos were no longer a “devilish plaything of the gilded class,” Mr. Moskowitz tells us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Famously, he set a Barbie doll on fire to protest Greta Gerwig’s movie portraying the doll as a woman with agency, rather than a passive plaything.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
"Wombats are not a photo prop or plaything."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
Here at the Walker Art Center, a weighty and ambitious exhibition reorients American audiences toward a generation of artists, writers and musicians for whom free expression was no plaything and no luxury.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
But the child’s favorite plaything was the basement.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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