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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
Two of the mannequins will be replicas of local dogs, a black poodle and golden retriever.
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Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
The singers play mannequins stationed in neighboring storefront windows.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026
Then there were mysterious clown sightings and the viral mannequin challenge.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026
The Rusty Bolt masterfully turns scrap metal into folk art, with its mannequins and rusty cars, while Copper Cart offers classic Americana and Southwestern curiosities.
—Daria Bachmann, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
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Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
The singers play mannequins stationed in neighboring storefront windows.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026
Then there were mysterious clown sightings and the viral mannequin challenge.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026
The Rusty Bolt masterfully turns scrap metal into folk art, with its mannequins and rusty cars, while Copper Cart offers classic Americana and Southwestern curiosities.
—Daria Bachmann, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for mannequin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannequin
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Up next, Johnstone will direct the live-action Monster High movie, based on Mattel’s doll line, for the company, as well as Universal Pictures and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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The group’s notebooks read like fragments of fairy tales or magical realism—years of stories within stories within stories, like Russian nesting dolls.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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From open models to real-world applications, China has shown that constraints have not stopped it from gaining ground.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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William is asserting himself as the architect of a stricter, more disciplined royal model.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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Harold Lloyd is the title rookie who gets to Tate University looking for football glory and maybe a girlfriend, too, and quickly becomes the resident tackling dummy in a template for sports and college comedies that followed.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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With Liverpool pegged back from 2-0 up, there was huge pressure on the youngster when the ball fell to him inside the box after Dominik Szoboszlai’s dummy.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Mannequin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannequin. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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