Dummy in example sentence

You've made a nice mess you have; why couldn't you wind it up properly, you silly dummy?" he grunts from time to time as he struggles wildly with it, and lays it out flat on the tow-path, and runs round and round it, trying to find the end.

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We know from three different studies on three different types of pain that a saltwater injection is a more effective treatment than a sugar pill, a dummy pill with no medicine in it, not because the injection or pills do anything physically to the body, but because an injection feels like a much more dramatic intervention.

Another 50 patients got a dummy placebo sugar pill with no active ingredient, and only one of them died.

In fact, seven trials were conducted comparing reboxetine against a dummy placebo sugar pill.

And you might notice the bum on the sidewalk here who is boozing and his ventriloquist dummy is puking.

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