Dummy
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"Even if he were not," said the curate, "I will go bail and answer for him that in this matter he will be as silent as a
dummy
, under pain of paying any penalty that may be pronounced."
More example sentences with word dummy
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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