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as in model
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
Nobody could mistake the form visible in those photographs for a white mannequin.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Winocour does better with some of the specifics, like the red adhesive biopsy strips placed around Maxine’s breasts, mirroring the patterning tape on mannequins in the workshop.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Objects such as the popular Granny mannequin are considered props, not collection items, Anderson explained.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Swimming pool events have the competitors rescuing mannequins and towing each other.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Winocour does better with some of the specifics, like the red adhesive biopsy strips placed around Maxine’s breasts, mirroring the patterning tape on mannequins in the workshop.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Objects such as the popular Granny mannequin are considered props, not collection items, Anderson explained.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Swimming pool events have the competitors rescuing mannequins and towing each other.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannequin
Noun
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Labubu is a doll that resembles a monster, featuring a large head, sharp teeth and prominent eyes.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Annabelle has been in so many movies now, to the point of being overused (the real doll has even been suspected of paranormal activity recently).—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Built to last, the 2020 model features a new roof design that boasts up to 90 pounds per square foot of snow load.—
Gabriela Izquierdo,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
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The iPhone 17 lineup is headlined by the addition of the iPhone 17 Air, which takes the place of the iPhone Plus model that served as the company's second tier phone.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Magic starred Hopkins as Corky, a magician who reaches fame alongside his ventriloquist’s dummy, the obnoxious and wisecracking Fats.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Mannequin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannequin. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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