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Recent Examples of hand puppet
John Russell, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, one of the other wards is Dave Crealy (John Lithgow), who terrorizes the residents in increasingly sinister ways — along with the help of his hand puppet, Jenny Pen.
—William Earl, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
Her son, Michael, writes the storylines and does voiceovers for some of the hand puppets.
—Eve Glover, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2024
Even Marlowe directs this film using only realistic, lifelike hand puppets.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2024
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
Humans are able to learn from very few examples, meaning that even a single encounter can solidify the connection between a silver hand puppet and the phonemes that comprise robot.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
Jason eventually finds his voice through his crude hand puppet, Tyrone, who says and does things that Jason could only dream of.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
NYPD Blue detectives Sipowicz and Simone are brought in to interrogate the smart-alecky hand puppet.
—Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
Noun
And so his way of coping with the world was talking with an orangutan hand puppet.
—John Russell, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, one of the other wards is Dave Crealy (John Lithgow), who terrorizes the residents in increasingly sinister ways — along with the help of his hand puppet, Jenny Pen.
—William Earl, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
Her son, Michael, writes the storylines and does voiceovers for some of the hand puppets.
—Eve Glover, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2024
Even Marlowe directs this film using only realistic, lifelike hand puppets.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2024
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
Humans are able to learn from very few examples, meaning that even a single encounter can solidify the connection between a silver hand puppet and the phonemes that comprise robot.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
Jason eventually finds his voice through his crude hand puppet, Tyrone, who says and does things that Jason could only dream of.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
NYPD Blue detectives Sipowicz and Simone are brought in to interrogate the smart-alecky hand puppet.
—Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
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“Hand puppet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand%20puppet. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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