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puppet
noun as in toy figure
Strongest matches
noun as in person manipulated by another
Strongest matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
She says she no longer thinks of God as a personified being pulling the puppet strings.
The satirical twist is that all the footage shown as real is, of course, deepfaked, while all the footage labeled fake is either real or played by puppets.
Computer-programmed light pulses can then target these newly light-sensitive neurons in a particular region of the brain and control their activity like puppets on a string.
He’d look at the wrong target, knowing it was wrong, but still stare at it like a puppet.
Here’s what the actor Geena Davis — by the way, she prefers “actor” to “actress” — here’s what she told us about the beloved educational series with a cast of puppet characters.
Based on his sock puppet, I expected him to be a burly bearded giant clad in plaid—basically, a Canadian Paul Bunyan.
In 2006, Israel's Rechov Sumsum added Mahboub, an Arab-Israeli puppet who spoke both languages on the series.
It was a hand, it was a puppet, it was half-CGI, but mostly puppetry.
In another study, children saw a puppet show where a mouse was eaten by an alligator.
So, in short, everyone knows Leung is a mere puppet with zero power and will read out whatever the communists dictate to him.
The puppet had been torn from Mazaroff's hands; those compromising papers had vanished from Countess Saens's drawer.
I have heard of puppet rulers before—woman whom I am delighted to learn has a human heart after all.
A number of persons were assembled in the tap-room of the inn, where a man was exhibiting a puppet-show.
If you would call me puppet to-morrow, we might strike a balance and find—what should we find?
Falser than the Bank of Fancy, frailer than a shilling glove, Puppet to a father's anger, minion to a nabob's love!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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