dummy
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A Chinese submarine test-fired a missile carrying a dummy warhead on Monday, with monitors saying the rocket appeared to land in a patch of ocean somewhere between Solomon Islands, Nauru and Tuvalu.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
In September 2024, China carried out its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in decades, launching a dummy warhead from Hainan island in southern China into waters near French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
"What we do is we measure energy in a lab with dummy heads. What effect that has on the brain remains to be seen," Phillips said.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
In their experiment they used a dummy based on the average MRI data of an adult Japanese man from the university's partners, Tokyo Institute of Science in Japan.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
I’ve been acting like some mystical, crystal-worshiping dummy.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
I cannot emphasize enough that we are dummies when it comes to programming.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
At the end of the film, Murphy engages in humorous conversations with his dummies of Pryor and Cosby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
With camouflage-clad dummies in the window and slogans like "cool and spicy" it aims to attract men and women to serve, but only gets a handful of callers each day.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
Why did they all stand like dummies, like people in a trance?
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
That error resulted in Ireland's second try, while Fraser Dingwall was beaten on the outside by Robert Baloucoune, who dummied Tommy Freeman and then escaped Lawrence, for Tommy O'Brien's score.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
It got better for the tourists when Ringrose made a half-break, dummied and then passed to Smith, who grubbered cleverly.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
In the last seconds, Tomkins dummied to kick and scored to spark celebrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
And once Jake Wardle dummied to set up his Warriors club-mate Smith for England's second try on 20 minutes, Laurent Frayssinous's young side struggled to respond.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023
The Tigers scrum-half spotted an understaffed blind-side as the hosts braced themselves for another driven maul off a line-out five metres out before darting, dummying and diving in for a fine score.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022
Manoa gets it back though and MacGinty goes searing through the broken field, dummying and getting up to the 22.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015
Manoa gets it back though and MacGinty goes searing through the broken field, dummying and getting up to the 22.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015
Unsurprisingly, given the season he has had so far, Ricciardo won it, with two breathtaking moves on Perez and Vettel, dummying both into the second chicane.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2014
Bob and Bat were dummying on the station at the time, and looking after the Skeleton paddock.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
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