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
Before a kid can read or write, message tees provide an opportunity for a parent to ventriloquize at whim.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2018
I asked the questions, and was of course supposed to ventriloquize the answers, and, thanks to the glassy stare of my doll, her replies almost convinced the audience I was doing so.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
The site also featured several ventriloquized posts from Tiny Pinocchio telling his life story:
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
At the same time, former stars of the Follies relive memories and stumble through old numbers, magically ventriloquized from Broadway’s past in the Sondheim songs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
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
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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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
On the contrary, Franklin’s decision to begin with the pretext of ventriloquizing Cooke dramatizes the process by which she makes the song her own.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2016
In this environment, Rhodes has become adept at ventriloquizing many people at once.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2016
The introductions and little urbanities are, to be sure, very delightful in their way; I would not lose them; but I have no admiration for the practice of ventriloquizing through another man's mouth.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
