dummy
Example Sentences
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His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
One of the director’s frequent visual cutaways is to a knight-outfitted dummy the children build on a picturesque spot, lashed to a stake.
From Los Angeles Times
The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.
From BBC
"It looked almost as if it was a tailor's dummy lying there, it didn't really register with me."
From BBC
“You big dummy!” is about as clever as their remarks to one another ever get.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
