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"Then they built a long, thin corridor, about half a mile long, to a small dummy house, and that's where you go in," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Prosecutors say Ying brought a dummy manuscript back to the library after stealing the real one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

A Chinese submarine test-fired a "strategic" 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. 8, 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

“You guys! Right after you left! The Mr. Lemoncello dummy spit out a bonus card!”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025

During Glastonbury, he set out a blow-up boat, filled with dummies in lifejackets, during a set from Bristol-based post-punk band Idles.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024

We all sat there like dummies, scared out of our wits.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

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

Mitchell, who was excellent, dummied his way over for the Lions' third after the Waratahs made a mess of a tap penalty.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025

In training he tossed around a rugby ball and dummied past England assistant coach Marcus Trescothick.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

In stoppage time, Tostao's through ball for Pele drew out Uruguay keeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, but instead of taking it around him, the forward dummied, allowing the ball to run past both him and his opponent.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

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

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

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

“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 Randall Garrett