1
: a small-scale figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
2
Examples of doll in a Sentence
My aunt collects porcelain dolls.
there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom
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Advertisement Mattel moved to pull the dolls from online retailers and stores including Target, one of Universal’s retail partners on the movie.
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Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
The mistake appeared on the singing dolls based on Wicked's main characters Elphaba and Glinda, played by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in the film.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
The American exec was in Paris over the weekend at a Squid Game launch during which the Champs-Élysées was taken over by an enormous doll along with hundreds of people in tracksuits playing the main game from the show, ‘Red Light Green Light’.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
Elf on the Shelf dolls, Lego sets and Harry Potter figurines were among the top-selling items on Cyber Monday.
—John Towfighi, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
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Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
The mistake appeared on the singing dolls based on Wicked's main characters Elphaba and Glinda, played by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in the film.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
The American exec was in Paris over the weekend at a Squid Game launch during which the Champs-Élysées was taken over by an enormous doll along with hundreds of people in tracksuits playing the main game from the show, ‘Red Light Green Light’.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
Elf on the Shelf dolls, Lego sets and Harry Potter figurines were among the top-selling items on Cyber Monday.
—John Towfighi, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
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doll
noun
ˈdäl 
ˈdȯl
1
: a small figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
2
a
: a pretty young woman
b
: an attractive person
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