marionette
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No one wants to be a Roth IRA marionette.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Creative pandemic-era solutions, including Zoom puppet classes, mobile marionette shows, even wedding planning helped the Bob Baker Marionette Theater thrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
At one point, he seems to become a marionette: the vertical line of the microphone stand dividing him in two, with gyrating arms and legs seemingly independent of each other.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
A classic marionette might have eight to 10 strings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
Immediately the needle began to swing round and round, and Hannah counted six revolutions before it settled firmly on the marionette.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
My timings, my instincts, the way that I thought, the way I saw it in my head could be expressed through these really high-tech marionettes on a computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
“Initially, when I pitched the show I wanted to do an Almodóvar film with marionettes and Adult Swim very wisely said, ‘This is going to create more complications for you,’” he recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Men who couldn’t, or worse, didn’t want to, were portrayed as marionettes tied to and practically strangled by their mothers’ apron strings.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
"In the 1940s marionettes were the predominant style of puppetry, then television came along with The Muppets and that become the predominant image of puppetry," Mr Mander said.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
“How else are we going to cart twenty marionettes into town?”
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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