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Seconds later, a loud buzzing filled the room as two drones flew in through an open doorway and circled a human-shaped dummy, noisily distracting the “attacker” until an actual policeman ran in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Just over a month prior, China had test-fired a submarine ballistic missile with a dummy nuclear warhead with the capacity to reach the U.S. from Chinese coastal waters, raising alarms across the Pacific region.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Since the booth had the “Fun & Games” banner, Kyle figured you might have to talk to the dummy to get a game.

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

Were you among the dummies who, as Davante Adams put it, were “freaking out”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

For decades, Hiccup’s village of Berk has been looted by sheep-stealing dragons — and the dragons in turn have been captured and used as training dummies for future dragon-killers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

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

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025

They were only dummies, but I still couldn’t help being awed by Luke’s skill.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

First, 20 year-old midfielder Lopez took his chance to impress on the big stage as he stroked home a side-footed finish on 15 minutes after Lewandowski dummied Raphinha's low cross.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

His cross was dummied by Vardy, leaving Fatawu with a simple finish.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024

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

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

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

A move started by Luke Eves's break ended with Jeremy Manning dummying over.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010

When the immediate advent of selectors to a run became probable, the lessees endeavoured to circumvent them by dummying all the positions which offered the best means of blocking the selectors from getting to water.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris