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[duhm-ee] / ˈdʌm i /




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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

It’s a pixelated image of the ventriloquist dummy actor Bill Murray uses in the film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

A Chinese submarine fired the ballistic missile fitted with a dummy warhead earlier this month, reaching far into the Pacific Ocean.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

"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

That word dummy poked me in the brain, in the stomach, in the chest, every time I heard it.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

And the late rounds were for special teams fodder and training-camp tackling dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

And I still really love that chapter about freestyling and battling for dummies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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

No room or time for dummies or brats.”

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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

Hamilton dummied for the inside at Turn One with seven laps to go and Norris defended with a late move.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2023

In the last seconds, Tomkins dummied to kick and scored to spark celebrations.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010

So far as dummying is concerned." said I; "no one except their Maker and M'Gregor knows how the thing was worked.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy


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