as in doll
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
my kid sister was always playing with her dollies
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Below the hole in the ceiling were carts and two-wheeled dollies.
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Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 July 2024
The building will break from the basement foundation before it’s placed on large hydraulic dollies to move to the new location.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2024
At 3:45, Johnson loads up a dolly with the first two stones, wheels them down a wooden ramp, wiggles them off and leans them against wooden pallets that have been placed on the side of a building.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Fifteen crew members — twice as many as in a typical Mobile Unit production — were trundling dollies, road boxes and ladders from a library loading dock toward the stage.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 June 2024
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Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 July 2024
The building will break from the basement foundation before it’s placed on large hydraulic dollies to move to the new location.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2024
At 3:45, Johnson loads up a dolly with the first two stones, wheels them down a wooden ramp, wiggles them off and leans them against wooden pallets that have been placed on the side of a building.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Fifteen crew members — twice as many as in a typical Mobile Unit production — were trundling dollies, road boxes and ladders from a library loading dock toward the stage.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 June 2024
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“Dolly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dolly. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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