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
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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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Project Sidewalk– Use your mobile device to report the condition of city sidewalks to improve navigation for anyone using wheeled transport, especially wheelchairs, but also grocery carts, baby carriages, delivery dollies and wheeled luggage.Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 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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