as in hand puppet
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Recent Examples of rag doll
But inside her mind, surreal and vivid images intrude on her thoughts — her body hanging like a rag doll from the hook of a crane, lying on a forest floor covered in insects, twisted among driftwood on a beach.
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
Catherine O'Hara pulls double duty as the blue-skinned, Frankenstein-esque rag doll Sally and the crafty trick-or-treater Shock.
—Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
Most years, Santa delivered a rag doll her mother handcrafted.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
Catherine O'Hara as Sally O'Hara voices Sally, Jack's love interest and a stitched rag doll creation of Dr. Finkelstein.
—Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
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Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
Catherine O'Hara pulls double duty as the blue-skinned, Frankenstein-esque rag doll Sally and the crafty trick-or-treater Shock.
—Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
Most years, Santa delivered a rag doll her mother handcrafted.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
Catherine O'Hara as Sally O'Hara voices Sally, Jack's love interest and a stitched rag doll creation of Dr. Finkelstein.
—Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rag doll
Noun
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Even Marlowe directs this film using only realistic, lifelike hand puppets.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2024
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Those in the audience who had been picturing tiny little hand puppets were blown away by the larger-than-life size of the animals.April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Major Bill Hendricks and his wife, Diane, wanted to donate a handmade doll to a child in need.Noel Burgess, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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While other toy companies have struggled financially – Hasbro, the maker of GI Joe, Monopoly, and other toys, recently announced layoffs – Mattel has thrived with toys that include Hot Wheels and Barbie dolls, two of the hottest and most iconic items in retail.George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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And there’s little tears out of these big men that are pushing dollies and things.Colleen Bidwill, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The studio apartment for Rudy the Chicken is built atop a dolly with wheels.Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
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Astrid, of course, is the daughter of Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and to commemorate Ortega’s character’s appearance in the film, McFarlane Toys is including Astrid in part of a special four-pack of 7-inch scale action figures in the toy company’s Movie Maniacs line.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Was that Freddy Krueger action figure really appropriate for 'imaginative' play?Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
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Thus was Sarg credited with creating the world's first upside-down marionettes.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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In it, HiTech are hooked up to strings like marionettes, use their own hands to create shadow puppets, and rap their verses alongside twerking ladies.Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 Nov. 2024
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The Teflon seal around a poppet, a thruster valve, expanded and started extruding out as the thruster headed up.Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
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In the Old World, hexing your enemies required use of candle magick, mysterious sigils or poppet dolls impaled by needles; in 2021, Nessa Barrett turns hexes into dark-pop hits.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
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Several items, including guns, a safe and jade figurines were stolen from the home on the night of Maggie’s death, federal investigators said.Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2024
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The clues were there all along, tucked away in Billy’s (Joe Locke) room: the seaside painting on the wall, the Lorna Wu and the Coral Shore posters, the Wizard of Oz figurines on the shelf, etc.EW.com, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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The show racked up 33 Emmy nominations over the course of its run, ultimately winning seven of the statuettes.Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
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And Dune: Part Two is currently favored to take home the statuette in that category as well at the upcoming 97th ceremony (Sunday, March 2nd, 2025).Mark Hughes, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Rag doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rag%20doll. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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