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a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom
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Recent Examples of doll
Nuna’s beauty team, consisting of hairstylist Antoine Martinez and makeup artist Ashley Sable, likewise leaned into the theme of the look as part of Jacobs’s spring 2025 collection, which explored surreal elements on models styled as doll-like silhouettes.
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Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
His time in charge can be seen as a Matryoshka doll of questionable decisions.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
The resale prices of Labubus started to fall after Pop Mart increased production of the dolls to meet demand, according to CNBC.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
As Madeleine Grynsztejn observes in her catalogue contribution, the clothes worn by his figures are based on doll costumes that Marshall sews by hand.
—James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doll
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Each band’s gear had been set up on dollies and risers, secured under forty-foot-long tents.—
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Attach four caster wheels to the base of an old cabinet door to form a dolly.—
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Fanny and Stella, middle-class lovelies in hoop skirts, engage in a warm embrace.—
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In an early scene, poor Christian attends a dating event, having gamed the system, with his perfect numerical logic, so that all the potential lovelies are lined up at his table.—
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The puppets’ heads in the past are silicon moulds multi-layered by oil painting to look like aged wood.—
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Maesa is a musician and Jack is a puppet and mask designer.—
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Similar photos would later be taken of Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren while attending Cannes, with the whole beach babe thing becoming something of a tradition for Hollywood stars visiting the Riviera in the mid-21st century.—
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Welcome to a major transition week, R29 babes.—
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Wilcox, who runs a small health and beauty business, moved to the United States and became a citizen after growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, according to her campaign biography.—
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More is at stake than preserving the singular beauty of the sawgrass prairies of Everglades National Park or cypress swamps of the Big Cypress National Preserve.—
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According to folklore, a magical fox runs across the snowy wilderness of Lapland, and as its tail brushes against the snowflakes, sparks fly into the sky, creating the lights.—
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The virus has also proved fatal to foxes and skunks in Kansas that likely ate something infected, Hesting said.—
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This cutie is beloved for its sweet expression and gentle posture.—
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Billy the Kid Comes Home For Christmas adds holiday cheer to Dolly Parton's canine-cutie catalogue of children's books.—
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The school’s founders are accused of siphoning tens of millions of dollars into a private company between 2017 and 2021.—
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The strikes have left tens of thousands of people across the country without power or heating amid freezing winter temperatures.—
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“Doll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doll. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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