dummy
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The United States voiced alarm Monday over Beijing's nuclear program after China test-fired a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean, the latest move in its rapid military modernization.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 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
"My job is to fire footballs at test dummy heads and see what happens"
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
His film contains gestures that trigger ironic laughs — he’s no dummy — but then leave you with a sting you may be embarrassed to admit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
I still think his dad is a dummy.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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
Later on, the contestants had to put their doubts and suspicions aside for the day's challenge - in a creepy room full of headless dummies, which needed their Celebrity Traitor heads reattached.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025
Baldwin’s attorneys alleged that Kenney may have co-mingled live bullets with so-called dummies — an allegation that Kenney has long denied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
The two dummies looked exactly like Patrick and Oona Daley did in their wedding portrait.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
Russell missed the conversion but showed his class as he dummied his way through the Cardiff defence before his long pass was collected by Will Muir who passed on to Lawrence to score.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
It was just a matter of time until the pressure told and James struck from six yards after Gregory cleverly dummied a through ball.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
But half a lap later, Norris went for the position again into Turn 12, dummying Leclerc and this time making the move stick.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Great Britain took a surprise victory in the first Test with Jonathan Davies dummying, darting and diving in for one of Wembley's great tries.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023
But there were also patient, one- or two-pass attacks, scrum-half Mike Petri prompting and MacGinty darting and dummying.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2015
With Hohaia dummying through some strangely hesitant Warrington defence in between times, Saints had a wholly unexpected 14-0 lead.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
“Lieutenant, do you actually mean that you really don’t know what’s going on here, or are you just dummying up?”
From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall
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