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plaything

[pley-thing] / ˈpleɪˌθɪŋ /


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Autos were no longer a “devilish plaything of the gilded class,” Mr. Moskowitz tells us.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Famously, he set a Barbie doll on fire to protest Greta Gerwig’s movie portraying the doll as a woman with agency, rather than a passive plaything.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2025

"Wombats are not a photo prop or plaything."

From BBC Mar. 13, 2025

But where “M3GAN” felt alive to the culty potential of a malevolent plaything, “Imaginary” skips the directive to entertain, coming off as stiff, pedestrian and dreary as a March space-filler can get.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2024

It was a plaything, made in the distant past for the use of infant woodlanders.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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