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a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising
mannequins striding down the catwalk in the designer's spring collection
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Recent Examples of mannequin
Black mannequins, outfitted in de Vilmorin’s collection, gleamed atop red marble tables.
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Ian Malone, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2025
Bay Area designers created 16 mannequin displays that explore different aspects of Lunar New Year traditions from red envelopes and gold coins to dragon dances and big family dinners.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
The Roadster's sole passenger was a mannequin named Starman, who had donned the same white spacesuit now ubiquitous for NASA astronauts on missions to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Dragon capsules.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
The company also said that enhanced visual merchandising in stores and the reintroduction of mannequins on the shop floor; cross-category styling ,and styling innovations on the Burberry website also helped to tempt customers.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025
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Ian Malone, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2025
Bay Area designers created 16 mannequin displays that explore different aspects of Lunar New Year traditions from red envelopes and gold coins to dragon dances and big family dinners.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
The Roadster's sole passenger was a mannequin named Starman, who had donned the same white spacesuit now ubiquitous for NASA astronauts on missions to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Dragon capsules.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
The company also said that enhanced visual merchandising in stores and the reintroduction of mannequins on the shop floor; cross-category styling ,and styling innovations on the Burberry website also helped to tempt customers.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannequin
Noun
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See, there’s this scary monkey toy—a vintage windup doll that creepily plays the drums—and whenever it gets set off, someone around it dies.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Fashioning Wonder includes some exquisite doll sized clothing and accessories, were traditional objects that might have been included in someone’s collection of curiosities?—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Foundation models are being enhanced with multi-modality and pre-training is still growing.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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Detector can range between $20 for basic models to $100 for digital, low-level detectors.—
Sara Moniuszko,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Each year, fire safety officials warn of the dangers of fireworks and stage demonstrations of dummies that catch fire and watermelons that explode.—
Linda Trischitta,
Sun-Sentinel.com,
10 July 2017
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Zuby said the Tesla Model S didn’t have a strong enough safety belt, and a dummy used to simulate a driver in the small overlap test moved too far forward during the crash, striking its head on the steering wheel.—
Diana Kruzman,
USA TODAY,
6 July 2017
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“Mannequin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannequin. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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