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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
In Ciudad Juarez, its factories make a variety of products from mannequins to electrical components.
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Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Using facial-recognition software, the drone targets a mannequin and then dives toward it, colliding with a sound like a gunshot and leaving a small hole in its forehead.
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 26 Nov. 2024
Black mannequins, outfitted in de Vilmorin’s collection, gleamed atop red marble tables.
—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
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Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Using facial-recognition software, the drone targets a mannequin and then dives toward it, colliding with a sound like a gunshot and leaving a small hole in its forehead.
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 26 Nov. 2024
Black mannequins, outfitted in de Vilmorin’s collection, gleamed atop red marble tables.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannequin
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Mattel released eight new one-of-a-kind Barbie dolls for International Women's Day, honoring female friendship.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, Barbie has tapped actresses and real-life besties Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple to receive their own dolls, who model miniature red carpet-worthy gowns.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
4 Mar. 2025
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The two most visible competitors, Samsung and Apple, do have models that sit between the vanilla and the Pro handsets, but their difference is a larger screen with the same performance as the vanilla model.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Well, the set of the Valentino show was a red room where models waited inside bathroom stalls, which was reportedly inspired by the late great film director David Lynch, who worked with Naomi Watts on the 2001 film, Mulholland Drive.—
Aamina Inayat Khan,
StyleCaster,
11 Mar. 2025
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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 16 Mar. 2025.
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