Dummy
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The discovery that this was a
dummy
, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and coming to the bed.
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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