dummy
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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
"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
Miranda whispered loudly, “Nobody but a dummy would dare sleep on Pittluck’s watch.”
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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And the late rounds were for special teams fodder and training-camp tackling dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
We put up the posters, scared off two dummies who wanted to run for the job, and presto!
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Bellingham rounded the goalkeeper to net in the 80th minute after Dean Huijsen cleverly dummied Valverde's pass.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
However, up stepped star full-back and sevens captain Bianca Silva, who dummied and raced over half of the pitch to score.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
Deep in the Welsh 22 and with Anscombe in his road, the fly-half dummied, stepped and then found Graham, who roared in.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
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
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
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
Karim Benzema opened the scoring with a stunning effort, cutting in from the right wing before dummying his way past three defenders and slotting in.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
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
Bob and Bat were dummying on the station at the time, and looking after the Skeleton paddock.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy