ventriloquize
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Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2023
But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Why not experiment, mess around a little, throw your voice, ventriloquize, pick up one form and put it down and move on to another?
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
To engage in krivlyanya, the noun form of krivlyatsa, means to be artificial—to ventriloquize someone else instead of being yourself.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2017
And then he would ventriloquize once more to himself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
The site also featured several ventriloquized posts from Tiny Pinocchio telling his life story:
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
His verified Twitter account, however, ventriloquized his criticism of Sen. Kamala Harris.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2020
“Well,” Jacob’s better angel ventriloquized, “I’d love to see it someday.”
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2016
But in an opera in which Sulzer’s music is ventriloquized by the experimental sounds of Ms. Berkson, it sometimes sounded as if she were heckling herself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2012
And the woman came off victor, for Fritz ventriloquized no further, and the passengers had nothing to say, having no desire to get plastered up with freshly prepared pumpkin pie.
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The Yes Men refer to their practice as “identity correction,” ventriloquizing what corporate culture would say if a truth serum made it display its real self.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
By ventriloquizing a woman to voice his most provocative punch lines, he seems to concede that he might not possess the authority to pull off the jokes, or the argument, on his own.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 8, 2019
At the very least, it demonstrates that Lacey is capable of ventriloquizing well beyond the quirky-insightful voice of “Nobody is Ever Missing.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2017
The film asks us to ponder what we can know about our contemporary moment when we stop ventriloquizing our ancestors, and begin to speak in our own voices.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2017
He is their mouth-piece, not they his: what they say is never Shakespeare ventriloquizing, but is to all intents and purposes their own.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
