: the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows
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: the art of manipulating puppets
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Despite being best known for voicing Yoda, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Cookie Monster and his pioneering puppetry work with Jim Henson, Oz was also a successful director.—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025 There are animatronic dragons poking out of their little homes, walk-around dragons created with a bit of puppetry and costuming magic, and dragons that appear to walk and move completely on their own.—Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025 Based on the fable of Pegasus, the seven-part work is told through dance, music, puppetry and cinema.—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 28 Mar. 2025 But Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 dealt Kharkiv’s puppetry a heavy blow, as much of the city’s population of 1.4 million evacuated in the face of the Russian onslaught.—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for puppetry
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