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[duhm-ee] / ˈdʌm i /




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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

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

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




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