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as in doll
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
gave her a puppet with strings for a gift
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Lifelike dinosaur puppets provide a roaring good time with plenty of comical audience participation.
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
Done by Weta Works, Black Sheep uses puppets for most of its infected ruminants.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Dressed in a full-body recreation of the original puppet from the film, Monáe modeled a number of iconic looks from the movie, including the famous dress-up scene between the alien and Drew Barrymore’s character.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
Some of puppets ride swings, others push firewood carts, smiling eerily at visitors.
—Peter Guo, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
Done by Weta Works, Black Sheep uses puppets for most of its infected ruminants.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Dressed in a full-body recreation of the original puppet from the film, Monáe modeled a number of iconic looks from the movie, including the famous dress-up scene between the alien and Drew Barrymore’s character.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
Some of puppets ride swings, others push firewood carts, smiling eerily at visitors.
—Peter Guo, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement Since then, every new release and restock of the plush dolls has sold out within minutes in stores and within seconds online.Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Piazza San Michele will also feature a life-sized replica of Young-hee, the giant doll that presides over the murderous game of Red Light, Green Light, the iconic scene from the smash hit Netflix show.John Bleasdale, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
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In a cruel twist of fate, the 72-year-old beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother lost his life two weeks ago, this time to two men in a robbery inside his Rochester Hills home, about a 35-minute drive from his jewelry store and pawn shop.Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2024
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The entity, called the Research Policy Board, became a pawn in a fight between the new administration and legislators over Trump’s plan to reduce how much money universities receive to manage NIH grants to their faculty.ByJeffrey Mervis, science.org, 16 Oct. 2024
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The unstructured nature of language, audio, and imagery were not as well suited for the prior AI tools.Billee Howard, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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In addition, much of the focus is on the tool’s ability to provide real-time information, just as a search engine does, for queries users want to know right away and which can change at a moment’s notice—sports scores, stock prices, and the weather.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
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Step aside Disney princesses, vampires and minions – another Halloween costume may have joined the list of most popular getups for 2024: Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
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The MacGuffin that causes Knull’s generic, interstellar cockroach minions to hunt down Venom/Brock on Earth is a lifeforce-slash-tracking-device known as the Codex.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Puppet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppet. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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