ventriloquist

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Jobs such as a "ventriloquist" should not be ridiculed.

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a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

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noun

a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ventriloquist.

noun

a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

Example sentences

Jobs such as a "ventriloquist" should not be ridiculed.

But I swear these X-ray specs are legit and that you can learn to be a ventriloquist in only 5 days!

Basically, the sounds a ventriloquist has to cheat.

That bend in the marginal utility near "ventriloquist" looks wrong to me given the total utility shown.

My boss and those I work with are all very active and proactive on making sure we become, are, and remain glued together as we all play ventriloquist on the job.

> For instance, there is no real trace of this species of professional ventriloquist in any century but the 20thThere's nothing new about speechwriting.

For instance, there is no real trace of this species of professional ventriloquist in any century but the 20th - and very little before the middle 20th.

Political candidates are at once both ventriloquist dummies and freewilled adults.

Understandably, big companies don't like feeling like ventriloquist's puppets.

Googling points me to: "Andy Gross is an American former professional racquetball player, now a touring comedian, ventriloquist, magician, and illusionist.

An article I read the other day about human consciousness touched upon our tendency to project consciousness/will/agency onto non-living things, like the puppet controlled by a ventriloquist.